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Moliere
French
Playwright
About the author
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#World
#Man
#Act
#Wealth
#Charity
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Reason
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Reason
#Men
#Purpose
#Comedy
#Vices
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Prose
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Leaders
#History
#Books
#Dancing
#Mankind
#Skill
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#People
#Quality
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Right
#Wrong
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Talk
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Grief
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Heart
#Integrity
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Want
#Friend
#Truth
#Rest
#Mankind
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Virtue
#Vice
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Words
I have the knack of easing scruples.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#People
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Love
#Joy
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#May
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Heaven
#Compromise
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Love
#Marriage
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Life
#Nothing
#Living
#Passion
#Worth
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#World
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Soul
#Solitude
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Man
#Opera
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Want
#People
#Being
#Mind
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Books
#Marriage
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Thinking
Reason is not what decides love.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Love
#Reason
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Peace
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Language
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Fool
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Pet
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.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Patience
#Man
#Behavior
#Insults
#Moderation
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Nothing
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Public
#Sin
#Scandal
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Road
#Error
#Haste
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Being
#Fault
We die only once, and for such a long time.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Time
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Heaven
#Compromise
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Fool
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Nothing
#Passion
#Folk
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Praise
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Courage
#Piety
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Love
#Nothing
#Friends
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Glory
#Overcoming
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Men
#Comedy
#Duty
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Work
#Day
#Books
#Reading
#Virtue
#Worth
#Fame
#Famous
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Law
#Woman
#Change
#Husbands
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Control
#Kings
#Grammar
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Gallantry
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Trees
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere,
French
Playwright
#Love
#Friends
#First
#Writing
#Money
#Prostitution