Moliere Quotes - Page 7

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• I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

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  Revenge, Best Revenge

  "The Doctor in Spite of Himself". Play by Molière, III, 9, 1667.

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• We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

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  Wise, Fashion, Men

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• I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

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  Believe, Eight, Two

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• Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

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  Respect, Preference, Esteem

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2000). “The Misanthrope and Other Plays”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

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  Fine Words, Alive, Good Food

  'Les femmes savantes' (1672) act 2, sc. 7

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• What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

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  Names, Giving, Hypocrisy

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• The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

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  Silence, World, Scandal

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• Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

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  Cities, Paris, Culture

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• The envious will die, but envy never.

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  Envy, Envious, Dies

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Tartuffe (1664), V, 3, 1922.

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• Love is often the fruit of marriage.

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  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• We die only once, and for such a long time.

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  Death, Time, Long

  "Le Dépit Amoureux". Play by Moliere, Act V, sc. iii, 1656.

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• Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
  [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

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  Innocence, Accustomed

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• It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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  People, Laughing, Strange

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• Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

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  Vices, Birth, Virtue

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• Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Perfect

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• Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

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  Literature, Theater, Please

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• There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

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  People, Age, Praise

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• There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

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  Passion, Smoking, Literature

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• Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

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  Life, Powerful, Inspire

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• Time has nothing to do with the matter.

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  Poetry, Effort, Criticism

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• The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

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  Secret, Scandal, Sin

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• The smallest errors are always the best.

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  Errors, Smallest

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 236-37, L'Etourdi, IV. 4, 1922.

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• With a smile we should instruct our youth.

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  Thinking, Youth, Should

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.42, Penguin

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• All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

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  Wise, Perfect, Wish

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• In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

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  Order, Meals, Guests

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