Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIEREConsistency is only suitable for ridicule.
More Moliere Quotes
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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