Quotes by Pierre Beaumarchais

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I have no right to refer in my articles only to power, to religion, to politics, to morals, to officials, to loyal associations, to the opera house, as well as to other theaters and to all persons connected with something in particular ; otherwise, about everything else; I can write absolutely freely under the supervision of two or three censors.

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How gratifying it is to be loved for who you are.

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It's always like that in life: we strive, make plans, prepare for something, and fate gives us something else entirely. Starting with the greedy conqueror, able to swallow the whole world and ending her as a humble blind man, led by a dog, we are all toys of her whims. And it is possible that the blind man who follows the dog will follow a straighter path, and be less often deceived in his expectations, than the first blind man with all his retinue.

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The shy man is accosted by every passerby.

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Jealousy is the weak fruit of pride or the disease of the madman.

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A flattering mediocrity gets everything it wants.

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The pleasant disorder of joy never leads to dangerous consequences.

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Nature told the woman: be beautiful if you can, wise if you want, but you must be rational.

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To pretend that you do not know what is known to everyone, and to know what no one knows; to pretend that you hear what is not clear to anyone and that you do not hear what everyone hears; it is important to pretend that you can surpass yourself: and you often make a great mystery out of what, in fact, is not one; locking yourself in your own office just to sharpen your quill and look pensive while the wind blows through your head; is it bad, is it, or is it good to deceive anyone, to favor slanderers and feed traitors, to melt wax seals, intercept letters, and endeavor to justify the poverty of the means by the importance of the end. This is what politics means...

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Before I told you everything and now I hide nothing from you.

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The poor must have no defect.

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To the good-hearted, gratitude is not a burden.

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You don't need to own an object to have an opinion on it.

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Sincere repentance is no different from any good deed: it also brings you a reward.

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Honest people love women and cheaters adore them.

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To assert something without being able to prove it with the help of the law is to slander.

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The wise man never messes with the strong.

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The wise man does not need to listen to everything in its entirety, because he understands anyway.

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The ability to overcome oneself with courage - this has always seemed to me to be one of the greatest achievements of which a rational man can be proud.

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The intellect cannot be humbled; you can only take revenge on him by driving him away.

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Ah, the woman!... weak and treacherous creature!

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For the family, the expulsion of the scoundrel from her bosom is a precious thing.

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It is not without reason that women's fidelity has been given so much importance! The good and bad in society is influenced by their behavior. Heaven or hell in the family is caused by that gossip that circulates about women, and this gossip depends only on themselves.

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Heaven always protects innocence!

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Our wives think that if they love us, that means everything. They have got this into their heads, and they love so much, so much (if they really love) and are so attentive, so helpful, always and in all situations, that one day, to your great astonishment, instead of feeling happiness again, you begin to feel satiety. If we will look elsewhere for that pleasure that we do not find at home, it is because our wives do not possess the art to a sufficient extent to maintain in us the attraction to love each time in a different way, to revive.. .the charm of possession through the charm of diversity.

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The most guilty are also the most generous - this is the general rule.

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Having all kinds of possessions is not enough. To be satisfied with possession: this is what happiness means.

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A habit is often an evil.

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He is just honest enough not to deserve to be hanged.

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Oh, these women! If you want the most innocent of them to learn cunning, lock her up somewhere.

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We drink when we're not thirsty and make love all the time - that's the only thing that makes us different from other animals.

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In my opinion, if the superior does us no harm, it is already a considerable benefit.

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Politics is the art of creating facts and subjugating people and situations to you, like a game. Her goal is profit, and the way - intrigue... Only honesty can withstand her.

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Vices and abuses do not change, but take a thousand forms, masking dominant habits; breaking this mask and showing them in the light of reality - this is the noble task of the man who deals with the theater.

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No wine and no songs.

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We must by no means confound ordinary criticism, which is one of the noblest aims of art, with the infamous satire directed against men: the former has the advantage of correcting without insulting.

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Can peace and love coexist in the same heart?

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If we were to take into account all the virtues required of a servant, how many masters capable of serving would be found?

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To achieve the proposed goal, the entrepreneurial spirit is as necessary as the knowledge.

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The anger of good people is nothing more than an insistent need to forgive.

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Stupidity and vanity always go hand in hand.

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Where there is no freedom of criticism, no praise is pleasant.

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There is a great law in life: one is a shepherd and another is a king! Birth is an accident The mind does not have the same. The almighty ruler Through life is fleeting, Only Voltaire is immortal.

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There are no cures for everything.

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The wind that blows out the candle, rekindles the fire in the hearth.

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At a certain age, decent people forgive each other their mistakes, weaknesses, and former impetuous passions that led to a distance between them, and give way to a tender affection.

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In our times, what cannot be spoken, is sung.

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In love, even "too much" is not enough.

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And what if I am above my own reputation?

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Women really like to be thought of as ruthless.

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To live is to fight - to fight is to live.

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Love of elegant literature is incompatible with zeal for work.

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Only the sweet secret gives charm to love!

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When fear grips you in the face of evil, you already begin to feel the evil of fear.

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When a woman gets angry, don't look for common sense in her words!

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An astute client always knows his case better than any lawyer: lawyers go out of their way, get hysterical to the point of hoarseness, just to demonstrate their competence in absolutely everything and everything, but less so in this case, and once with these they are but little moved by the fact that they have brought the client to the wood-hoe, tired the hearers, and put the judges to sleep….

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As soon as it was noticed that, with the passage of time, old nonsense acquires an air of wisdom, and old inventions, which have become the subject of frivolous gossip, give rise to great, even grandiose truths, the world was filled with truths as big as leaf and grass. There is a truth that everyone knows, but no one talks about, because not every truth can be spoken. There is a truth that everyone extols, but not wholeheartedly, because you can't trust every truth. What shall we say of the vows of lovers, of the threats of mothers, of the promises of drunkards, of the promises of potentates, of the last word of merchants? And so on to infinity!

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Every man is always someone's child.

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You can only set people straight by portraying them as they really are.

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Bullshit in the media only gains power when it has difficulty spreading it.

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Force even the most impartial judge to try his own case and you will see how he will interpret the laws!

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Marriage is the ugliest of uglies.

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It is well known that the essence of the case is the domain of the litigants, while the form belongs to the judges.

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Sooner or later, the plot will lose the one who generated it.

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Nowadays, what is not worth saying is sung.

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The only difference between us and other mindless animals is that we drink even when we are not thirsty, and we are thirsty for love without waiting for time.

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Acquiring wealth does not require knowledge, but the so-called know-how to live.

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When it comes to love, too much of it is never enough.

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It's all about keeping silent about what you know and talking about what you don't know; to understand what you do not understand and not to hear what you understand; always bear more than you can; know that the great secret is that there is no secret; shut up very seriously and sharpen your pen, enter the deep with an empty head; play the personality right or wrong; send out spies and reward traitors; break a seal, steal a letter; let your wretched means be sanctified by the greatness of your aims: that is politics, hang me if it is not so! (...) Politics, intrigue, one dog: sweet brothers, whoever wants to do it.

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If you don't do anything, you won't get anything and you won't be good at anything.

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The musician, the poet, the lover can overlook all folly.