The smallest errors are always the best. Molière

Why is Molière controversial?

Copies of Molèire's 1664 script were banned, burned, and lost to history after leaders of the Catholic church condemned the comedy as an attack on religion. In Europe, there had always been a tempestuous relationship between the church and the stage, but Tartuffe arguably set a new precedent.Mar 21, 2018 

    A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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    Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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    Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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    There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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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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    There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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    All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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    One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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    Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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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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    Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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    Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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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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    Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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    Reason is not what decides love.
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    Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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    All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy    to draw breath
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    The envious will die, but envy never.
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    Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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    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.
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    If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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    Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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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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    Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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    Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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    When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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