black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

Moliere

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
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.
MOLIERE

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIERE

Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE

Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Moliere Quotes