Moliere Quotes - Page 6

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• Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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  Kings, Grammar, Know How

  Les Femmes Savantes act 2, sc. 6 (1672)

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• Music and dance are all you need.

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  Dancing, Needs, Music And Dance

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• Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

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  Hypocrite, Giving, Hypocrisy

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• There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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  Courage, Literature, Wells

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• I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

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  Literature, Want, Telling The Truth

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• It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

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  Hatred, Humanity, Twenties

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• In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

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  Men, Clothes, Giving

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

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• All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

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  Literature, Prose, Verses

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• We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

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  Communication, Speak, Wells

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• Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

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  Play, Giving, Effort

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.45, Penguin

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• Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

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  Action, Courses

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• It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

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  Love, Thinking, Joy

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• Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

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  Men, Medicine, Disease

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• There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

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  Doctors, Remarkable, Complaints

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• It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

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  Desire, Want, Sake

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• One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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  Inspiring, Food, Weight Loss

  1668 L' Avare, act 3, sc.1.

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• Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

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  Poison, Tongue, Proof

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• The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.

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  Powerful, Doctors, Medicine

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• I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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  Annoyed, Vices, Annoying

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• Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

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  Death, Rome, Grants

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• Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

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  Thinking, Dust, Long

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• Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

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  Heart, Men, Noble Man

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• ...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

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  Dance, Skills, Dancing

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• A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

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  Funny Love, Dog, Teenage Love

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• One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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  Heartbreak, Infidelity, Deceit

  "Le Tartuffe" (1664), IV. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 182-183), 1922.

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