People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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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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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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