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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
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Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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Consistency
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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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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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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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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