Moliere Quotes - Page 2

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

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

Too great haste leads us to error.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

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

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

We are easily duped by those we love.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

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

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

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

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

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

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

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.