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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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
Weakness
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Human
Humans
Curiosity
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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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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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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Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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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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How easy love makes fools of us.
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I want people to be sincere a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
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The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
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[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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