Moliere
Moliere
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. Among Molière's best known works are The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, The Imaginary Invalid, and The Bourgeois Gentleman...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth15 January 1622
CountryFrance
age moral sometimes
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
tongue poison proof
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
philosophy heart exercise
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?
very-good
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!
happiness believe enjoy
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
love lying fall
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
doctors remarkable complaints
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!
death rome grants
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
respect preference esteem
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
passion men smoking
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
revenge ready
A woman always has her revenge ready.
love-you each-day reason
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
dancing needs music-and-dance
Music and dance are all you need.
men dancing
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.