Moliere Quotes

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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.

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  Freedom, Kindness, Helping Others

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• I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

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  Wisdom, Fun, Fool

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

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  People, Worry, Happens

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• Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

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  Love, Experience, Masters

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• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

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  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

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  Death, Medicine, People

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• Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

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  Book, Good Friend, Bottles

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• Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

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  Bait, Hook

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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.

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  Wise, Patience, Wisdom

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• People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

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  People, Promise, Deeds

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• Things are only worth what you make them worth.

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  Perspective

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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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  Dance, Book, Skills

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

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  Philosophical, Matter, Way

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• The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

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  People, Wicked, Vices

  "The Misanthrope and Other Plays". Book by Molière, p. 101, 1959.

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

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  Heart, Secret, Our Actions

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• Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

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  Men, Nasty, Creatures

  'Le Tartuffe' (1669) act 5, sc. 6

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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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  Love, Funny, Money

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• A woman always has her revenge ready.

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  Revenge, Women, Ready

  "Tartuffe". Play by Moliere, Act II, sc. ii, 1664.

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• People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

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  People, Stupidity, Praise

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

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  Inspirational, Success, Patience

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• It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

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  Secret, Scandal, Sin

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• We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.

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  Long, Judgement, Looks

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

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  Men, Comedy, Amusing

  MOLIERE (1965). “TARTUFFE”

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• Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

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  Fashion, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.248, Penguin

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• The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

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  Art, Errors, Giving

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