What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these… — Molière Copy Share Image
“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his… — Molière Copy Share Image
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but… — Molière Copy Share Image
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. — Moliere Copy Share Image
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and… — Molière Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you! — Moliere Copy Share Image
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat… — Moliere Copy Share Image
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be… — Moliere Copy Share Image
