Molière Quotes

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

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.

...но няма повече какво тук да се нищи:
цениш ли всичките, то никой не цениш ти!

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

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

All human failings give us, in life, the means of exercising our philosophy

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Il est de sel attique assaisonné partout.

To give good colour to his acts against you;

Ah, there are no longer any children!

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk Are always the first to attack their neighbors.

Men often swear to kill themselves, and yet
Few of them, nowadays, make good their threat

Да, който влюбен е, не спира и тогава -
и недостатъка горещо обожава.