341 Quotes by Molière

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.

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!

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

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.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.

There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat.

In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.