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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
Playwright
Poet
Satirist
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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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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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
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My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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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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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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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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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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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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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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