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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Here [in Paris] they hang a man first, and try him afterwards.
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Hypocrisy has become a fashionable vice, and every fashionable vice passes for a virtue.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see:
Souls are wounded by such things.
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What the devil was he doing in that galley?
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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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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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Rags and tatters, if you like: I am fond of my rags and tatters.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.
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Géronte: It seems to me you are locating them wrongly: the heart is on the left and the liver is on the right.
Sganarelle: Yes, in the old days that was so, but we have changed all that, and we now practise medicine by a completely new method.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
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M. Jourdain:
What? when I say: 'Nicole, bring me my slippers, and give me my night-cap,' is that prose?
Philosophy Teacher:
Yes, Sir.
M. Jourdain:
Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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I prefer an accommodating vice
To an obstinate virtue.
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Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
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Of all human follies there's none could be greater
Than trying to render our fellow-men better.
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However gross the flattery, the most cunning are easily duped; there is nothing so impertinent or ridiculous which they will not believe, provided it be seasoned with praise.
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People do not mind being wicked; but they object to being made ridiculous.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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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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