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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Satirist
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Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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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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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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