Quotes by Moliere

"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."

Moliere on fate
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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."

Moliere on flattery   

"A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one."

Moliere on fools and foolishness
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"Gold makes the ugly beautiful."

Moliere on gold   

"Grammar, which can govern even Kings."

Moliere on grammar   

"Long is the road from conception to completion."

Moliere on ideas   

"Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death."

Moliere on knowledge   

"Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!"

Moliere on knowledge   

"We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after."

Moliere on marriage   

"Love is often the fruit of marriage."

Moliere on marriage   

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"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion."

Moliere on nations   

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

Moliere on obstacles
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"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."

Moliere on pleasure   

"There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket."

Moliere on praise   

"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."

Moliere on reform   

"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable."

Moliere on responsibility
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"He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money."

Moliere on riches   

"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."

Moliere on scandal   

"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."

Moliere on smoking   

"Books and marriage go ill together."

Moliere on books - reading   

"People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything."

Moliere on upper class   

"I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others."

Moliere on writers and writing
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"We always speak well when we manage to be understood."

Moliere on communication   

"One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."

Moliere on criticism
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