One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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 defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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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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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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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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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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