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"50 Moliere Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 15 January 1622. Died: 17 February 1673 | Playwright | Actor |

Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.

Tragedy Life Feel Think
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Also Held Only Responsible
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Expensive Known Man Most
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Any Behavior Best Him
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Grief Much Suppress Too
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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.

Decent Deserve Folk Like
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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.

Book Books Day Doing
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Fine Good Live Soup
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

Fine How Know Oh
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We die only once, and for such a long time.

Die Long Long Time Once
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Clothed Every Every Heart Everyone
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Eat Live Should Food
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

Bear Pocket Praise Put
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Know Me Right Wrong
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Bear Best Fruit Grow
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Direct Error Haste Road
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Am Devout Human I Am
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Amusing Comedy Correct Duty
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Fruit Love Love Is Marriage
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Control Even Grammar How
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

Fine Joy Love Think
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Glory Greater More Obstacle
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Dog House Lover Pet
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Anything Ever Everything Having
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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Appear Pray Scholarly Speak
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Better Better Place Follies Greater
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Capacity Every Indulge Occasion
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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.

Flatter Friends Itself Less
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Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Act Charity Does Every
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Ah Allow Annoying Change
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Extremity Leads Perfect Reason
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Enterprise Laugh Make People
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Certain Compromise Generally Heaven
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

Offends Public Scandal Secret
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Reason is not what decides love.

Decide Worth Love Reason
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Courage Piety Pretenders Well
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.

Fool Marriage A Marry
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Prose Adages Verse Which
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People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
Being Being Mean Mean Mind
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Before Condemning Deal Good
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If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Always Make Speaking Understood
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Annoying Pleasant Prefer Vice
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

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

Compromise Found Heaven Pleasures
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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.

Anyone Comedy Correct Exempt
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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.

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

Esteem Everyone Founded High
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Fool Ignorant Learned More
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Bunch Everybody Follows He
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Moliere Quotes & Sayings