Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIEREI will maintain it before the whole world.
More Moliere Quotes
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Reason is not what decides love.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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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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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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