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Moliere Quotes
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Type:
Playwright Quotes
Category:
French Playwright Quotes
Date of Birth:
January 15, 1622
Date of Death:
February 17, 1673
Nationality:
French
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Moliere

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

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

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

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

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

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Moliere

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

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

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

Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere

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.
Moliere

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

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

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

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

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Moliere

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

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Moliere

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

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