Moliere Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

  Moliere

  Fashion, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.248, Penguin

• I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

  Moliere

  Interesting, Vices, Virtue

• I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

  Moliere

  Annoyed, Vices, Annoying

• If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

  Moliere

  Integrity, Heart, Would Be

• In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

  Moliere

  Society, Needs, Too Much

• Virtue is the first title of nobility.

  Moliere

  Titles, Firsts, Virtue

• Birth is nothing where virtue is not

  Moliere

  Giving, Birth, Virtue

• Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

  Moliere

  Vices, Birth, Virtue

• I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

  Moliere

  Teaching, Names, Youth

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.42, Penguin

• The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

  Moliere

  Powerful, Honor, Overcoming

• 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

  Book, Reading, Done

• Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

  Moliere

  Mean, Aristocracy, Birth

• The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

  Moliere

  Philosophy, Heart, Exercise

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