Moliere Quotes

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Moliere

Profession : Playwright

Birth : January 15, 1622

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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

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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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Love is often the fruit of marriage.

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Books and marriage go ill together.

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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

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

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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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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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

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

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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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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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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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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.

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

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I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

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