Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
MOLIEREAll the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
More Moliere Quotes
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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