Virtue is the first title of nobility.
—Moliere
Topics: Titles
Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!
—Moliere
Topics: Knowledge
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
—Moliere
Topics: Intelligence, Class
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
—Moliere
Topics: Courage, Grief
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
—Moliere
Topics: Fools, Foolishness
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
—Moliere
Topics: Shame
We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
—Moliere
Topics: Marriage
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
—Moliere
Topics: Candor, Friendship, Flattery
There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
—Moliere
Topics: Praise
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
—Moliere
Topics: Hypocrisy, Fashion
The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.
—Moliere
Topics: Health
Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
—Moliere
Topics: Knowledge
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
—Moliere
The most agreeable recompense which we can receive for things which we have done is to see them known, to have them applauded with praises which honor us.
—Moliere
Topics: Praise
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
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
—Moliere
Topics: Wealth, Riches
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.
—Moliere
Topics: Flattery
Unbroken happiness is a bore: It should have ups and downs.
—Moliere
Topics: Happiness
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
—Moliere
Topics: Marriage
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
—Moliere
Topics: Gold
Nothing can be fairer or more noble than the holy fervor of true zeal.
—Moliere
Topics: Zeal
Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
—Moliere
Topics: Inaction, Procrastination, Getting Going
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
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
—Moliere
Topics: Wit
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
—Moliere
Topics: Nationality, Nations, Nation, Nationalism
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
—Moliere
Topics: Marriage
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
—Moliere
Topics: Pleasure
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
—Moliere
Topics: Food, Eating, One liners, Weight, Diet
The greater the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
—Moliere
Topics: Difficulties, Risk, Obstacles, One liners, Adversity, Opposition, Difficulty
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
—Moliere
Topics: Correction, Reform
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