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
death medicine people
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
profound literature lessons
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
society too-much needs
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
children
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
dance skills dancing
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
powerful doctors medicine
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.
curiosity desire want
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
mean people mind
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
desire want sake
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
worry people happens
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
husband law annoyed
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
men pious
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
son four letters
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
long dies long-time
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.