No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIEREHeaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
More Moliere Quotes
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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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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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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There is no protection against slander.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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