The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIEREThe art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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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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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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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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The envious will die, but envy never.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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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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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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