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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
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Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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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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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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It is the public scandal that offends to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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I want people to be sincere a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
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