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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
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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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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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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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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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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Age brings about everything but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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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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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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