Moliere Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Moliere
Moliere Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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.
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ...
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ...
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same.
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!