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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
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France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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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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Music and dance are all you need.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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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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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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In society one needs a flexible virtue too much goodness can be blamable.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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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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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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