A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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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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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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