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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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Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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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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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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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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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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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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