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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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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All right-minded people adore it and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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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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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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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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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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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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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved
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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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