They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIEREDom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
More Moliere Quotes
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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