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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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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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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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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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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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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But it is not reason that governs love.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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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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Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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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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How easy love makes fools of us.
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