Moliere Quotes - Page 4

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• According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

  Moliere

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Ancient

  L'Avare act 3, sc. 1 (1669)

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• I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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  Beautiful, Literature, Soup

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• Without dance, a man can do nothing.

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  Men, Dancing, Can Do

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• There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

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  Effort, Honor, Rewards

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• How easy love makes fools of us.

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  Greatest Love, Fool, Easy

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• There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

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  Men, Dancing

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• Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

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  Innocence, Accustomed

  "Don Garcie de Navarre". II. 5, 1661.

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• When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.

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  Eight, Eating, Enough

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• All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

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  Sex, Beard

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• How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

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  Father, Son, Repentance

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.247, Penguin

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• Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

  Moliere

  Kings, Heart, Vices

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• Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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  Errors, Haste, Literature

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• Virtue is the first title of nobility.

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  Titles, Firsts, Virtue

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• Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

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  Love You, Each Day, Reason

  Moliere (1965). “The Misanthrope”, p.20, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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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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  Book, Reading, Done

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• And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

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  Spiritual, Looks, Arms

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• Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

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  Education, Teaching, Mouths

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• Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

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  Thinking, Sacred, Reason

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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Fate

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• The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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  World, Strange, Affair

  "The School for Wives". Play by Moliere, Act II, sc. v, 1662.

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• All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

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  Mirrors, Faults, Satire

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• I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

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  Interesting, Vices, Virtue

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• No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

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  Lonely, Way, Stubborn

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.39, Penguin

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• You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

  Moliere

  Salvation, Solace

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• The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

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  Philosophy, Heart, Exercise

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