The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERESharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
More Moliere Quotes
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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