Moliere Quotes

• 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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• Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

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• Reason is not what decides love.

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• Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

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• People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

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• People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

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

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

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• Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

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• Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

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• Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

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Moliere (81)

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

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