Moliere Quotes - Page 3

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• Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

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  Love Life, Men, His Love

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• Deference and intimacy live far apart.

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  Intimacy, Deference, Wooing

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• All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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  Excess, Absence

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

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  Secret, Scandal, Sin

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• The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

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  Two, Giving, Secret

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• The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

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  Love, Criticism, Proof

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• Virtue is the first title of nobility.

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  Titles, Firsts, Virtue

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• Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

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  Passion, Doubt, Faults

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• At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

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  Marriage, Married, Being Married

  "The Misanthrope and Other Plays".

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• He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

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  Sarcastic, Money, Men

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

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  Society, Needs, Too Much

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• unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

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  Happiness, Should Have, Unbroken

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• You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

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  Long, Long Time, Dies

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• Reason is not what decides love.

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  Love, Marriage, Literature

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

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  Integrity, Heart, Would Be

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• 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.

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  Art, Errors, Giving

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• Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

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  Deeds, Undone, Left

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• How easy love makes fools of us.

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  Greatest Love, Fool, Easy

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• They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

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  Enlightenment, Blind, Reason

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

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  People, Intelligence, Quality

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.27, Penguin

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• Without dance, a man can do nothing.

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  Men, Dancing, Can Do

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• There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

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  Men, Dancing

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• If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

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  Speaking Well, Literature, Wells

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• The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

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  Eating, Genuine, Dine

  "Amphitryon" by Molière, III. 5, 1690.

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• There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

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  Love, Lying, Fall

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