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Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
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France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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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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Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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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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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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