1622-1673, French Playwright
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
MoliFre – [Fools and Foolishness]


Books and marriage go ill together.
MoliFre – [Books and Reading]


Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MoliFre – [Nations]


Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MoliFre – [Gold]


Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MoliFre – [Grammar]


He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MoliFre – [Riches]


I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
MoliFre – [Writers and Writing]


It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
MoliFre – [Responsibility]


It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MoliFre – [Scandal]


It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MoliFre – [Pleasure]


Long is the road from conception to completion.
MoliFre – [Ideas]


Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MoliFre – [Marriage]


Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MoliFre – [Reform]


Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!
MoliFre – [Knowledge]


One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
MoliFre – [Critics and Criticism]


People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MoliFre – [Upper Class]


The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MoliFre – [Obstacles]


The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MoliFre – [Fate]


The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MoliFre – [Flattery]


There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
MoliFre – [Praise]

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