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Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please? — Moliere

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper. — Moliere

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety. — Moliere

Love is often the fruit of marriage. — Moliere

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time. — Moliere

Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise; — Moliere

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. — Moliere

The great ambition of women is to inspire love. — Moliere

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion! — Moliere

A woman always has her revenge ready. — Moliere

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

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same. — Moliere

Assassination's the fastest way. — Moliere

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive. — Moliere

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others. — Moliere

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

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language. — Jean Baptiste Moliere

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! — Moliere

The road is long fro the project to its completion. — Moliere

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

Ah, there are no longer any children! — Moliere

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed. — Moliere

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

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it. — Moliere

Deference and intimacy live far apart. — Moliere

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer. — Moliere

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world. — Moliere

What do I believe? I believe that two and two make four, Sganarelle, and that four and four are eight. — Moliere

But it is not reason that governs love. — Moliere

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection. — Moliere

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard. — Moliere

Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something! — Moliere

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation. — Moliere

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

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! — Moliere

Your humour, madam, Gives any and everyone too easy access Into your heart. You have too many lovers Besieging you - a thing I can't endure. — Moliere

The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. — Moliere

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. — Moliere

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

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. — Moliere

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone. — Moliere

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! — Moliere

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh. — Moliere

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live. — Moliere

Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?
Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws? — Moliere

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found. — Moliere

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance! — Moliere

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor. — Moliere

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

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin. — Moliere

Flatterers are always to blame for the vices which prevail among mankind — Moliere

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. — Moliere

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety. — Moliere

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money. — Moliere

That virtue in this world is hated ever; Malicious men may die, but malice never. ORGON — Moliere

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know. — Moliere

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

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

No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified. — Moliere

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty. — Moliere

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive. — Moliere

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money. — Moliere

Two wives? That exceeds the custom. — Moliere

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart. — Moliere

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ. — Moliere

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor. — Moliere

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

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue. — Moliere

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

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. — Moliere

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III. — Ving Rhames

Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal. — Moliere

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were. — Moliere

Time has nothing to do with the matter. — Moliere

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. — Moliere

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name. — Moliere

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age! — Moliere

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today. — Moliere

How easy love makes fools of us. — Moliere

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

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. — Moliere

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man. — Moliere

Englishmen have always loved Moliere. — Lytton Strachey

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. — Moliere

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

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing. — Moliere

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one. — Moliere

I recover my property wherever I find it. — Moliere

Without dance, a man can do nothing. — Moliere

But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ... — Moliere

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life. — Moliere

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf. — Moliere

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. — Moliere

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things. — Moliere

We are easily duped by those we love. — Moliere

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments. — Moliere

Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think. — Moliere

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

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson. — Stephen Leacock