I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIEREMalicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
More Moliere Quotes
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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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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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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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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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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