Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes
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Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.
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As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
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To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.
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Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
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Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.
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Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
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Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.
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I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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I would rather worry without need than live without heed.
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Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.
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A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.
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It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.
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I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.
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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
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Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
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I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
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Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
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Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.
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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
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To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.
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Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
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The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.
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