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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
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Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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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!
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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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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It is the public scandal that offends to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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