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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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Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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More quotes by Moliere
The envious will die, but envy never.
Moliere
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
Moliere
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
Moliere
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
Moliere
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Moliere
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
Moliere
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
Moliere
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Moliere
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
Moliere
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.
Moliere
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
Moliere
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Moliere
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Moliere
It is the public scandal that offends to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere
But it is not reason that governs love.
Moliere
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
Moliere
