A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
—Moliere
Topics: Marriage
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
—Moliere
Topics: Hypocrisy, Fashion
An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool.
—Moliere
Topics: Fools
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
—Moliere
Topics: Titles
Haste is not always speed. We must learn to work and wait. This is like God, who perfects his works through beautiful gradations.
—Moliere
Topics: Haste
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
—Moliere
Topics: Marriage
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
—Moliere
Topics: Vice
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
—Moliere
Topics: Wit
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
—Moliere
Topics: Charity
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
—Moliere
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
—Moliere
To live without loving is not really to live.
—Moliere
Topics: Love
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
—Moliere
Topics: Pleasure
Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
—Moliere
Topics: Knowledge
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.
—Moliere
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
—Moliere
Topics: Thinking, Criticism, Hypocrisy, Critics
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
—Moliere
Topics: Joy
The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.
—Moliere
Topics: Health
We should conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves.—Excess either way shocks, and every wise man should attend to this in his dress as well as language; never be affected in anything, but follow, without being in too great haste, the changes of fashion.
—Moliere
Topics: Fashion
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
—Moliere
Topics: Communication
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
—Moliere
Topics: One liners, Weight, Food, Eating, Diet
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
—Moliere
Topics: Gold
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
—Moliere
Topics: Intelligence, Class
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
—Moliere
Topics: Change, Consistency
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
—Moliere
Topics: Hate
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
—Moliere
Topics: Aptness, Appropriateness
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
—Moliere
Topics: Friendship, Candor, Flattery
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
—Moliere
Topics: Hypocrisy
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
—Moliere
Topics: Foolishness, Fools
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
—Moliere
Topics: Nation, Nationalism, Nations, Nationality
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