If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
- Moliere
Other, Everyone, Frank, Virtues
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
- Moliere
People, Enterprise, Make, Respectable
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
- Moliere
I Am, Same, May, Devout
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- Moliere
Nature, Slow, Grow, Bear
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
- Moliere
True, Pleasures, Negotiate, Compromise
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
- Moliere
Good, Wealth, Act, Hereafter
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
- Moliere
Deserve, Like, Lives, Tobacco
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.
- Moliere
Dancing, Mankind, Failures, Tragic
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
- Moliere
Purpose, Reason, Correct, Vices
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
- Moliere
Well, Always, Speaking, Understood
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
- Moliere
Talk, Scholarly, Appear, Understood
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
- Moliere
Deal, Good Deal, Before, Condemning
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
- Moliere
Courage, Well, Piety, Pretenders
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere
Great, More, Greater, Overcoming
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
- Moliere
Prose, Which, Verse
I have the knack of easing scruples.
- Moliere
Knack, Easing, Scruples
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.
- Moliere
Living, Aristotle, Lives, Philosophers
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
- Moliere
Wise, Reason, Sobriety, Extremity
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
- Moliere
Humor, Comedy, Correct, Amusing
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
- Moliere
Soul, Twenty, Solitude
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
- Moliere
Truth, Rest, Mankind, Distinguished
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
- Moliere
Occasion, Frenchmen, Every, Indulge
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
- Moliere
Everybody, Tastes, Manure, Lessons
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
- Moliere
Mind, Never, Ridiculous, Being Mean
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
- Moliere
Road, Unreasonable, Direct, Haste
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
- Moliere
Woman, Law, Allow, Annoying
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
- Moliere
Vice, Prefer, Pleasant, Annoying
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
- Moliere
Love, Marriage, Fruit, Love Is
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
- Moliere
Sympathy, Well, Too, Grief
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
Wisdom, Insults, Which, Reply
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
- Moliere
Sin, Public, Scandal, Offends
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
- Moliere
Love, Money, Close Friends, Close
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
- Moliere
Bear, Sort, Your, Pocket
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
- Moliere
Some, Found, Pleasures, Compromise
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
- Moliere
World, Better, Wanting, Greater
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.
- Moliere
Doing, Famous, Some, Expired
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
- Moliere
Opera, Most, Known, Noises
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
- Moliere
Beautiful, Language, Soup, Feed
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
- Moliere
Me, Know, Right, Wrong
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
- Moliere
More, Fault, Than, Sincere
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
- Moliere
High, Everyone, Esteem, Preference
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
- Moliere
Know, How, Fine, Oh
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
- Moliere
Grammar, How, Which, Knows
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
- Moliere
Ever, Having, Learned, Quality
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
- Moliere
Love, Nothing, More, Less
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
- Moliere
Fool, More, Learned, Ignorant
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
- Moliere
Pet, Well, Tries, Lover
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
- Moliere
Marry, Fool
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
- Moliere
Only, Held, Also, Responsible
We die only once, and for such a long time.
- Moliere
Death, Die, Once, Long Time
Reason is not what decides love.
- Moliere
Love, Reason, Decide
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
- Moliere
Good, Soup, Fine, Words
Books and marriage go ill together.
- Moliere
Marriage, Go, Books, Ill
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
- Moliere
Love, Think, Christmas, Seasoning
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
- Moliere
Food, Live, Should, Eat
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