Moliere Quotes
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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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.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.