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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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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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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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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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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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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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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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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