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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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Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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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.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
Moliere
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Moliere
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
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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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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Moliere
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere
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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There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
Moliere
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
Moliere
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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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
Moliere
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
Moliere
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Moliere
