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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
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Happiness
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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All which is not prose is verse and all which is not verse is prose.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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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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Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
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The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry
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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.
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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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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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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.
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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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[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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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!
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