Quote of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - All fashionable vices pass for virtues....

Biography - Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière:

French playwright and actor.
Born: 1622 - Died: 1673
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

All fashionable vices pass for virtues.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - Dom Juan

Note

"hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues."

Quote source: Dom Juan

Wikisource - Œuvres complètes de Molière (fr)

Translation

(French, German)

Tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière - Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre

Alle modischen Laster gelten als Tugend.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Molière - Don Juan

Quotes for: vice

From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.

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Ingratitude is the mother of all vice.

Jean de La Fontaine - Tales and Novellas in Verse /

There is only one vice of which no-one boasts - ingratitude.

Gérard de Nerval - Paradoxe et vérité /

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Francis Bacon - Essays /

Yet it is better to accept public morals and human vices calmly without bursting into either laughter or tears.

Seneca - On Tranquility of the Mind /

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire - Candide ou l'Optimisme /

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Quotes about virtue:

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Baruch Spinoza /

'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven /

The virtues lose themselves in interest as the rivers are lost in the sea.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière also said...

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The Misanthrope /

philosophy

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The School for Husbands /

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The School for Wives /

To live without loving is not really to live.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - La Princesse d'Élide /

One should eat to live, and not live to eat.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The Miser /

Grammar which rules even kings, and makes them, with a high hand, obey her laws.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The Learned Women /

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