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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
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France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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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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To live without loving is not really to live.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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