Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. Moliere More Quotes by Moliere More Quotes From Moliere The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be? Moliere exerciseheartphilosophy 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? Moliere hypocrisynamesgiving The great ambition of women is to inspire love. Moliere datingambitionlove Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. Moliere honorable-manwritingmen How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion! Moliere passionfashionpeople 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. Moliere dustlongthinking As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt. Moliere vicespurposemen Grammar, which can govern even Kings. Moliere grammarkings There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting. Moliere lovelyingfall Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age! Moliere moralityagesometimes One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it. Moliere enjoyhappinessbelieve And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. Moliere moneychristianfunny 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. Moliere passionliteraturematter Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. Moliere passionsmokingmen I have the knack of easing scruples. Moliere scruplesknack 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! Moliere complaintsdoctorsremarkable 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. Moliere break-upprideinspirational I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name. Moliere youthteachingnames He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money. Moliere moneysarcasticmen We are all mortals, and each is for himself. Moliere mortalsself
