Molière quotes

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. (Molière)
The envious will die, but envy never.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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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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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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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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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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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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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. (Molière)
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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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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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Almost all men die of their remedies, not of their diseases.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Ah, there are no longer any children! (Molière)
Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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I always make the first verse well, but I have trouble making the others.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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