Molière Quotes

El envidioso puede morir, pero la envidia nunca.

You have believed very wrongly, and I will be bound that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

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

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;

Why Opium produces sleep: … Because there is in it a dormitive power.

La grammaire qui sait régenter jusqu'aux rois.

Bah!, non andiamo a pensare a quel che può capitarci e pensiamo soltanto a quel che può darci piacere.

Evil exists only when its known. Adam and Eve were public in their fall. To sin in private is not to sin at all

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

SÉPTIMO YO: Qué extraño es que todos queráis rebelaros contra este hombre por tener cada uno de vosotros un destino determinado que cumplir. ¡Ah, ojalá fuera yo como uno de vosotros y tuviera también un YO con un determinado destino! Pero no tengo ninguno, soy el YO sin ocupación, el que se sienta en silencio, vacío de Tiempo y espacio, mientras vosotros estáis ocupados recreando la vida. ¿Sois vosotros o yo, compañeros, quien debe rebelarse? Cuando el séptimo YO hubo hablado, los otros seis lo miraron apenados, pero no dijeron nada. Y cuando la noche se hizo más profunda uno tras otro se fueron a dormir arropados en una nueva y satisfecha sumisión.

Die Tugend, deren die Gesellschaft bedarf, ist die Umgänglichkeit; zuviel Gesinnung kann durchaus tadelnswert sein; vollkommene Vernunft vermeidet alle extremen Einstellungen

We'll let time knit these gentle ties between us.

Appearances can deceive the keenest mind.
Remember my example, and be wise:
When things look simple, don't believe your eyes.

You take pains for me which are unnecessary; learned conversations are not at all in my way: I love to live at ease; and, in whatever is said, one must take too much trouble to become clever; it is an ambition which does not at all enter my mind. I find myself very well, mother, in being stupid; and I prefer having nothing but common-place talk to tormenting myself to say fine words.