Quotes from Moliere

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

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.

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

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.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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

My hate is general, I detest all men; Some because they are wicked and do evil, Others because they tolerate the wicked, Refusing them the active vigorous scorn Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.

I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

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

We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments

One must eat to live and not live to eat.