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Moliere Quotes


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

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

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

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

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

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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

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

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

Love is often the fruit of 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.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

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

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

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

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.