The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERENearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
More Moliere Quotes
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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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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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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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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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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