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We die only once, and for such a long time.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
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Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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