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Birth is nothing where virtue is not
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
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Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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Giving
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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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.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
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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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