--- title: "10 Should Quotes By Moliere" description: "10 Should quotes by Moliere. Plus more from Moliere and more Should sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/moliere-965_imitation_when-you-model-yourself-on-people-you-sh_1195722.png" --- > [When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/when-you-model-yourself-on-people-you-should-try-to-resemble-their/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/moliere-965_imitation_when-you-model-yourself-on-people-you-sh_1195722.png) > [With a smile we should instruct our youth...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/with-a-smile-we-should-instruct-our-youth/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/681/moliere-965_inspirational_with-a-smile-we-should-instruct-our-yout_1607416.png) > [unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/unbroken-happiness-is-a-bore-it-should-have-ups-and-downs/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7d/moliere-965_bores_unbroken-happiness-is-a-bore-it-should-h_2150130.png) > [One should eat to live, not live to eat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/one-should-eat-to-live-not-live-to-eat/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/529/moliere-965_food_one-should-eat-to-live-not-live-to-eat-2_2589191.png) > [According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/according-to-the-saying-of-an-ancient-philosopher-one-should-eat-to/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f5/moliere-965_ancient_according-to-the-saying-of-an-ancient-ph_183385.png) > [I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/i-maintain-in-truth-that-with-a-smile-we-should-instruct-our-youth-be/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/moliere-965_blame_i-maintain-in-truth-that-with-a-smile-we_3140059.png) > [Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/cultivated-people-should-be-superior-to-any-consideration-so-sordid/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6af/moliere-965_consideration_cultivated-people-should-be-superior-to_1842541.png) > [As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/as-the-purpose-of-comedy-is-to-correct-the-vices-of-men-i-see-no/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18d/moliere-965_comedy_as-the-purpose-of-comedy-is-to-correct-t_2612167.png) > [We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/we-should-look-long-and-carefully-at-ourselves-before-we-pass/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/963/moliere-965_judgement_we-should-look-long-and-carefully-at-our_2061296.png) > [All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/all-the-satires-of-the-stage-should-be-viewed-without-discomfort-they/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/983/moliere-965_censure_all-the-satires-of-the-stage-should-be-v_1281514.png) ## Other authors on Should ## More by Moliere > [I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/i-might-by-chance-write-something-just-as-shoddy-but-then-i-wouldn-t/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/tobacco-is-the-passion-of-honest-men-and-he-who-lives-without-tobacco/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/cover-that-bosom-that-i-must-not-see-souls-are-wounded-by-such-things/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/outside-of-paris-there-is-no-hope-for-the-cultured/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/even-rome-cannot-grant-us-a-dispensation-from-death/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/anyone-may-be-an-honorable-man-and-yet-write-verse-badly/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [The beautiful eyes of my cash-box.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/the-beautiful-eyes-of-my-cash-box/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/he-makes-his-cook-his-merit-and-the-world-visits-his-dinners-and-not/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/show-some-mercy-to-this-chair-which-has-stretched-out-its-arms-to-you/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/in-order-to-prove-a-friend-to-one-s-guests-frugality-must-reign-in/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/in-society-one-needs-a-flexible-virtue-too-much-goodness-can-be/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/some-of-the-most-famous-books-are-the-least-worth-reading-their-fame/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Assassination's the fastest way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/assassination-s-the-fastest-way/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/nothing-can-be-fairer-or-more-noble-than-the-holy-fervor-of-true-zeal/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/words-and-deeds-are-far-from-being-one-much-that-is-talked-about-is/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/should/moliere/#itemlist", "name": "10 Should Quotes By Moliere", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Moliere" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/when-you-model-yourself-on-people-you-should-try-to-resemble-their/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/moliere-965_imitation_when-you-model-yourself-on-people-you-sh_1195722.png", "contentUrl": 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