Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

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• Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
• As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
• I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
• 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 pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
• A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.
• Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung
• Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
• Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.
• If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
• I would rather worry without need than live without heed.
• Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.
• Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
• Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
• 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…
• Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
• Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
• Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
• I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

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