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Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
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Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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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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All which is not prose is verse and all which is not verse is prose.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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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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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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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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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
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