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All which is not prose is verse and all which is not verse is prose.
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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Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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More quotes by Moliere
In society one needs a flexible virtue too much goodness can be blamable.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
Moliere
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
Moliere
We must take the good with the bad For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!
Moliere
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Moliere
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
Moliere
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Moliere
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
Moliere
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
Moliere
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.
Moliere
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
Moliere
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
Moliere
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
Moliere
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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