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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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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Heavens
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Forty
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Heaven
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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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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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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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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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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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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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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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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Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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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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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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