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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
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Poet
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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More quotes by Moliere
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
Moliere
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Moliere
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
Moliere
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
Moliere
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
Moliere
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
Moliere
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
Moliere
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
Moliere
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
Moliere
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
Moliere
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Moliere
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Moliere
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Moliere
In society one needs a flexible virtue too much goodness can be blamable.
Moliere
It is fine for a woman to know a lot but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
Moliere
