Moliere Quotes - Page 4

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• There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

  Moliere

  Effort, Honor, Rewards

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• Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

  Moliere

  Love You, Each Day, Reason

  Moliere (1965). “The Misanthrope”, p.20, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

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  Philosophy, Philosopher, Ancient

  L'Avare act 3, sc. 1 (1669)

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• Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

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  Innocence, Accustomed

  "Don Garcie de Navarre". II. 5, 1661.

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• 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.

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  Book, Reading, Done

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• Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

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  Perfect, Reason, Extremes

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

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Fate

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• And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

  Moliere

  Spiritual, Looks, Arms

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• I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

  Moliere

  Beautiful, Literature, Soup

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• Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

  Moliere

  Kings, Heart, Vices

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• 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?

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  Philosophy, Heart, Exercise

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• The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

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  Few Friends, Firsts, Becoming

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• Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

  Moliere

  Preference, Esteem

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• The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

  Moliere

  World, Strange, Affair

  "The School for Wives". Play by Moliere, Act II, sc. v, 1662.

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• That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.

  Moliere

  Writing, Fine

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• How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

  Moliere

  Father, Son, Repentance

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.247, Penguin

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• All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

  Moliere

  Sex, Beard

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• Malicious men may die, but malice never.

  Moliere

  Men, May, Malice

  "Tartuffe". Play by Moliere, 1664.

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• How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

  Moliere

  Fashion, Passion, People

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.75, Penguin

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• If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

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  Courage, Grief, Grieving

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• Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

  Moliere

  Scary, Soul, Solitude

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• Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

  Moliere

  Errors, Haste, Literature

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• One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

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  Thinking, Looks, Deals

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• All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

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  Mirrors, Faults, Satire

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

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  Interesting, Vices, Virtue

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