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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
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Satirist
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Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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Consistency
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Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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It is the public scandal that offends to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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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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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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It is a folly second to none to try to improve the world.
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