The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIEREThe only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
More Moliere Quotes
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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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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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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