Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIEREAssassination’s the fastest way.
More Moliere Quotes
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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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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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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