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
condemning examine human-nature oneself others thinking time
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others
family marriage thinking
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
thinking youth should
With a smile we should instruct our youth...
thinking sacred reason
Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined
thinking dust long
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.
thinking joy fine
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
thinking looks deals
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
value
Things only have the value that we give them
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.