Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIEREDoubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
More Moliere Quotes
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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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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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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