Moliere Quotes

• One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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• The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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• It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.

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• Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

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• The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

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• One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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• One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

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• Long is the road from conception to completion.

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• All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

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• Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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• We die only once, and for such a long time.

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• Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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• True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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• To marry a fool is to be no fool.

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• There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.

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• There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

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• There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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

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• The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

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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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Moliere (81)

Birth:	15th January, 1622
Death:	17th February, 1673
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Actor, Playwriter

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