Moliere
The envious will die, but envy never.Collection: Envy
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.Collection: Hatred
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.Collection: Wise
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.Collection: Men
We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Thinking
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.Collection: Men
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!Collection: Doctors
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Powerful
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.Collection: Philosophical
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.Collection: Men
We are easily duped by those we love.Collection: Best Love
To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.Collection: Women
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.Collection: Ridiculous
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.Collection: Bears
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the belovedCollection: Passion
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.Collection: Honesty
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.Collection: Men
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.Collection: Deeds
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of deathCollection: Death
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.Collection: Enlightenment
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.Collection: Happiness
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.Collection: Two
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.Collection: Long
How easy love makes fools of us.Collection: Greatest Love
At least it's better to be married than to be dead.Collection: Marriage
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.Collection: Art
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.Collection: Love
Without dance, a man can do nothing.Collection: Men
To live without loving is not really to live.Collection: Love
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.Collection: Worry
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.Collection: Fate
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!Collection: Fashion
Too great haste leads us to error.Collection: Errors
Deference and intimacy live far apart.Collection: Intimacy
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eatCollection: Philosophy
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.Collection: Love
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.Collection: Spiritual
Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.Collection: Love Life
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.Collection: Eating
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.Collection: Hate
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Teaching
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.Collection: Marriage
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.Collection: Men
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.Collection: Haste