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At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
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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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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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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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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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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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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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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But it is not reason that governs love.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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