The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIEREDom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
More Moliere Quotes
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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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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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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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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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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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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