Molière Quotes

One must eat to live and not live to eat.

There are things in life which one cannot well defend, although one may have the greatest wish to do so.

Why take upon yourself the cause of Heaven? Does Heaven need our help to punish sinners?

The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.

Tous les hommes sont semblables par les paroles,ce n'est que les actions qui les découvrent différents

Trissottani: ma lo scemo ignorante è uno scemo più puro.
Clitandro: lo scemo intellettuale è uno scemo due volte.

Non c'è nulla che riesca a frenare in me l'impeto del desiderio: mi sento un cuore contenere tutta la terra e, come Alessandro, vorrei che esistessero altri mondi per arrivare a estendervi le mie conquiste d'amore.

That is the usual strain of all your kind; They must have every one as blind as they.

Je l'ai vu, dis-je, de mes propres yeux vu.

C'est un parleur étrange, et qui trouve toujours
L'art de ne vous rien dire avec de grands discours.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere. ORONTE

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

It is seasoned throughout with Attic salt.

Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.