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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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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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What will you do, sir, with four physicians? Is not one enough to kill any one body?
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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GERONTE:
But there was one little thing that puzzled me: the heart and the liver... the side they're on. I think you got them back to front. The heart is on the left side, and the liver on the right.
SGANARELLE:
Yes, that used to be the case. But we've changed all that, and currently in medicine we are following the modern method.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
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Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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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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What's needed in this world is an accommodating sort of virtue.
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We had a narrow escape, Madame, While asleep; A neighboring planet did pass us close by, Cutting a swathe right through our whirlpool; Had its path led to a collision with mother earth, She would have shattered in pieces like glass.
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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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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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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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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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I shouldn't be surprised if the greatest rule of all weren't to give pleasure.
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Repartee is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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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,
Since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience
The injustice of our fellows.
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One must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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A knowledgeable fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool.
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Born:
January 15, 1622
Died:
February 17, 1673
(aged 51)
Bio:
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.
Known for:
Tartuffe
The Miser (1668)
The Imaginary Invalid
The School for Wives (1663)
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670)
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