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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
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Paris
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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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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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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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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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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