The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERECultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
More Moliere Quotes
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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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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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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