Moliere Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Long is the road from conception to completion.

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  Long, Conception, Completion

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• No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

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  Attention, World, Safe

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• We are easily duped by those we love.

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  Best Love, Love Is, Those We Love

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• I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

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  Health, Medicine, Medical

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• Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

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  Death, Shadow Of Death, Shadow

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• I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

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  Hate, Mean, Men

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• Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

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  Ridiculous, Behavior, Folks

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

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  Cute, Gowns, Nonsense

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• It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

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  Society, Trying, Reform

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• I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

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  Honesty, Heart, Men

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• Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

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  Communication, Literature, Praying

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.134, Penguin

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• A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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  Education, Learning, Ignorance

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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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  Love, Shows, Pure

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• Too great haste leads us to error.

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  Errors, Haste

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 353-54, Sganarelle, I. 12, 1922.

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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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• Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

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  Men, Matrimony, Repent

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 495-500, Les Femmes Savantes (1672), V. 5, 1922.

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

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  Mean, People, Mind

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• Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Gold, Ugly

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• The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

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  Love, Criticism, Proof

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

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  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

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  Wit, Touchstones

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• All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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  Excess, Absence

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• Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

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  Worry, Anxiety, Doubt

  "The Misanthrope". Play by Moliere, Act III, sc. v, 1666.

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