Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIEREThe 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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