Moliere

Things are only worth what you make them worth.

— Moliere

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

— Moliere

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

— Moliere

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

— Moliere

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

— Moliere

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

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“Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his…

— Molière

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-night useless, since their…

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for…

— Moliere

“My claims were justified in all men's sight; I put my trust in equity and right; Yet, to my horror and the…

— Molière

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

— Moliere

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

— Moliere

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

— Moliere

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

— Moliere

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

— Moliere

“Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!”

— Molière

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

— Moliere

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

— Moliere

Long is the road from conception to completion.

— Moliere

If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.

— Moliere

The smallest errors are always the best.

— Moliere

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

— Moliere

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

— Moliere

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

— Moliere

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

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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for…

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“That virtue in this world is hated ever; Malicious men may die, but malice never.     ORGON”

— Molière

The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]

— Moliere

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

— Moliere

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

— Moliere

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when…

— Moliere

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

— Moliere

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

— Moliere

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

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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

— Moliere