One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIEREPeople can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
More Moliere Quotes
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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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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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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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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We are easily duped by those we love.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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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 public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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