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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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To create a public scandal is what's wicked to sin in private is not a sin.
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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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The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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