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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
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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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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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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 more we love our friends, the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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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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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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