Wealth & Money Quote by Moliere

Moliere treats virtue less like a halo and more like a ledger you cant game. "Every good act is charity" quietly strips charity of its modern PR sheen: it isnt a branded gesture performed from surplus, but the basic unit of decency. By making all goodness a form of giving, he collapses the moral hierarchy that lets people congratulate themselves for occasional generosity while staying petty, cruel, or indifferent the rest of the time.

Then comes the sharper turn: "true wealth hereafter". The phrase borrows the language of inheritance, estates, and social rank and smuggles in a moral swap. In a 17th-century France obsessed with status, patronage, and appearances, the afterlife becomes the only account that matters, and the only currency accepted is what you do for "his fellows" - not what you own, not what you perform. Its pointedly social: goodness is measured horizontally, in how you treat other people, not vertically, in how you impress God or society.

The subtext is classic Moliere: a jab at the pious hypocrite and the respectable scoundrel. He spent his career skewering characters who confuse morality with manners and devotion with theater. This line lands because it weaponizes the elites own vocabulary of wealth and converts it into an ethical audit. If your life is built on display, Moliere suggests, the only thing that survives the curtain call is the impact you had on the people sharing the stage with you.