Moliere Quotes - Page 5

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

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  Thinking, Looks, Deals

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• Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

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  Curiosity, Desire, Weakness

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• The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

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  Few Friends, Firsts, Becoming

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• True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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  Heaven, Literature, Compromise

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• When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

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  People, Trying, Sides

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• How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

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  Fashion, Passion, People

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.75, Penguin

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• Malicious men may die, but malice never.

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  Men, May, Malice

  "Tartuffe". Play by Moliere, 1664.

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• That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.

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  Writing, Fine

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• If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

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  Courage, Grief, Grieving

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• There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

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  Malice

  "Tartuffe". Book by Moliere, Act I, sc. I, 1664.

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• Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

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  Scary, Soul, Solitude

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• The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

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  Love, Long, May

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• The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

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  Long, Accomplishment, Projection

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• A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

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  Marriage, Husband, Being The Best

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• Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

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  Money, People, Consideration

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• To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

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  Inspirational, Break Up, Pride

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• If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.

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  Kings, Queens, Wine

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• The smallest errors are always the best.
  [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]

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  Errors, Plus, Smallest

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• It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

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  Trying, Earth, World

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• Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

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  Consistency, Ridicule, Suitable

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• I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

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  Love, Heart, Other Worlds

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• Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

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  Sweet, Money, War

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.80, Penguin

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• The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

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  Very Good

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• All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

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  People, Drug, Able

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