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Moliere Quotes About Love

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

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

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Reason is not what decides love.

Moliere Quotes About Funny

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

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

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

More Quotes by Moliere

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

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

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

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

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

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

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

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

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

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

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

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

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

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

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

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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

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

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

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

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

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Books and marriage go ill together.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

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

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

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