Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIEREThe true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
More Moliere Quotes
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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The 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.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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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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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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