People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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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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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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