Moliere Quotes
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Assassination's the fastest way.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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They zealots would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.