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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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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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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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