There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Quote by Moliere
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Moliere Quotes
- We die only once, and for such a long time.
- A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
- Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
- There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
- One should eat to live, not live to eat.
- Books and marriage go ill together.
- I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
- Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
- The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
- All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Best Quotes
- The good is the beautiful.
- I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.
- Poetry is a freedom of choice and economy of voice.
- I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
- I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.
- The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
- I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
- Necessity never made a good bargain.
- If indeed there's life after death, I sure will still be a poet.
- Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.