Moliere Quotes, Thoughts and images
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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.
At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
A woman always has her revenge ready.
We are easily duped by those we love.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
How easy love makes fools of us.
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.