Moliere famous quotes

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
-- Moliere

#Motivational #Positive #Perseverance

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

#Wise #Wisdom #Patience

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
-- Moliere

#Freedom #Kindness #Helping Others

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
-- Moliere

#Inspirational #Success #Patience

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
-- Moliere

#Thinking #Joy #Fine

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
-- Moliere

#Helping Others #Men #Doe

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
-- Moliere

#Love #Money #Sex

Reason is not what decides love.
-- Moliere

#Love #Marriage #Literature

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
-- Moliere

#Beautiful #Soup #Literature

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
-- Moliere

#Humorous #Men #Noise

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
-- Moliere

#Courage #Grief #Grieving

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
-- Moliere

#Kings #Grammar

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
-- Moliere

#Thinking #Looks #Deals

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
-- Moliere

#Education #Ignorance #Learning

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
-- Moliere

#Communication #Literature #Praying

We are easily duped by those we love.
-- Moliere

#Best Love #Love Is

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
-- Moliere

#Beautiful #Gold #Ugly

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
-- Moliere

#Doubt #Mental Health #Worst

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
-- Moliere

#Happiness #Unbroken #Should

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
-- Moliere

#Pain #Children #Debt

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
-- Moliere

#Heartbreak #One Love #Fooled

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
-- Moliere

#Fashion #Hypocrite #Hypocrisy

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
-- Moliere

#Learning #Past #Reason

Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
-- Moliere

#Sex #Men #Hypocrisy

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
-- Moliere

#Interesting #Vices #Virtue

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
-- Moliere

#Errors #Literature #Haste

To live without loving is not really to live.
-- Moliere

#Relationship

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
-- Moliere

#Secret #Scandal #Sin

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
-- Moliere

#Annoyed #Vices #Annoying

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere

#Funny Love #Dog #Teenage Love

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
-- Moliere

#Philosophy #Philosopher #Ancient

Love is often the fruit of marriage.
-- Moliere

#Love #Funny #Marriage

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
-- Moliere

#Men #Comedy #Amusing

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
-- Moliere

#Crazy #Mad #Stupidity

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
-- Moliere

#Inspiring #Food #Weight Loss

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
-- Moliere

#Integrity #Heart #Would Be

We die only once, and for such a long time.
-- Moliere

#Death #Time #Long

I live on good soup, not on fine words.
-- Moliere

#Literature #Soup #Fine

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

#Dance #Book #Skills

The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
-- Moliere

#Powerful #Doctors #Medicine

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
-- Moliere

#Mean #Aristocracy #Birth

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
-- Moliere

#Hate #Mean #Men

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
-- Moliere

#Society #Too Much #Needs

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
-- Moliere

#Honor #Jupiter #Adultery

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
-- Moliere

#Names #Hypocrisy #Giving

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
-- Moliere

#Enlightenment #Blind #Reason

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
-- Moliere

#Believe #Two #Eight

When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
-- Moliere

#Eight #Eating #Enough