Moliere Quotes

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.
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Wisdom, Best, Patience

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

Nature, Best, Grow

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.
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Great, History, Political

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

Great, Greater, Overcoming

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Food, Live, Eat

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

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

Good, Thinking, Before

Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere

Marriage, Love, Often

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool, Learned, Ignorant

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Annoying, Virtue, Pleasant

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

Talk, Speak, Pray

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control, Knows, Grammar

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Pet, Dog, Stand

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

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

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

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Fault, Sincere, Proper

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

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Marriage, Together, Books

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Playwright

Born: January 15, 1622

Died: February 17, 1673

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