Moliere Quotes
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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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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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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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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.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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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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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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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.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.