Moliere
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best known works are The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, The Imaginary Invalid, and The Bourgeois Gentleman...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth15 January 1622
CountryFrance
wise fashion 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.
fashion passion people
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
fashion hypocrite hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
value
Things only have the value that we give them
condemning examine human-nature oneself others thinking time
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others
love shows pure
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
people wicked way
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
mirrors faults satire
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
bears moral satire
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
hatred humanity cost
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.
men wicked aristocracy
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
age prudes twenties
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
preference esteem
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
family marriage thinking
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?