Zitat des Tages von Moliere:
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Reason is not what decides love.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
