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According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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To create a public scandal is what's wicked to sin in private is not a sin.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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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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How easy love makes fools of us.
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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 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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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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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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Gold is the key, whatever else we try and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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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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