Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
Moliere
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Satirist
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Nature
Faults
Defects
Best
Hearts
Employment
Human
Exercise
Loyal
Humans
Philosophy
Righteous
Heart
Virtue
Virtues
Would
Opportunity
Frank
Men
Use
Afford
True
Opportunities
Exercising
More quotes by Moliere
We must take the good with the bad For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!
Moliere
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Moliere
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
Moliere
It is the public scandal that offends to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
Moliere
But it is not reason that governs love.
Moliere
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
Moliere
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
Moliere
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
Moliere
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
Moliere
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Moliere
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.
Moliere
We are easily duped by those we love.
Moliere
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.
Moliere
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere
How easy love makes fools of us.
Moliere
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Moliere
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Moliere
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
Moliere
