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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Satirist
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Unbroken
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Bores
Happiness
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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All right-minded people adore it and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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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.
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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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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Age brings about everything but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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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.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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To create a public scandal is what's wicked to sin in private is not a sin.
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