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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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
Badly
Poet
Anyone
Write
May
Writing
Verse
Men
Verses
Honorable
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I want people to be sincere a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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All right-minded people adore it and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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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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According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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