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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Satirist
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Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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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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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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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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I want people to be sincere a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
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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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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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It is a folly second to none to try to improve the world.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue too much goodness can be blamable.
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They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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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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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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