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Moliere Quotes


Reason is not what decides love.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

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.

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

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

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

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

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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

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

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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

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