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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
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere
Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
Moliere
How easy love makes fools of us.
Moliere
The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
Moliere
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
Moliere
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Moliere
Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
Moliere
It is the public scandal that offends to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere
To live without loving is not really to live.
Moliere
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Moliere
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
Moliere
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
Moliere
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
Moliere
I recover my property wherever I find it.
Moliere
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
Moliere
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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.
Moliere
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Moliere
I have a heart to love all the world and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
Moliere
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
Moliere
