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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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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In society one needs a flexible virtue too much goodness can be blamable.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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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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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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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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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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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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I have a heart to love all the world and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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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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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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