No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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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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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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