341 Quotes by Molière

Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde,Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde.

Die Dinge haben nur den Wert, den man ihnen verleiht.

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

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

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

But reason does not govern love.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them.