Quotes from Moliere

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

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

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

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

We are easily duped by those we love.

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.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

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

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

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.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

But it is not reason that governs love.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

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

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

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