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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

There is no protection against slander.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

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.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

It is a long road from conception to completion.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

But it is not reason that governs love.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

All right, then: I'm deluded and I'm blind. CLITANDRE

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?
Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;
But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

I have the defect of being more
sincere than persons wish.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ...

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

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.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

We are easily duped by those we love.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

With a smile we should instruct our youth ...

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Things are only worth what you make them worth.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

The world will not alter for all your meddling.

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified.

Flatterers are always to blame for the vices which prevail among mankind