My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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 is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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