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1622–1673 France

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, more famous as Molière (15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673) was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire.

France
Actors
Playwrights
Poets
Satirists

Also known as: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Moliere

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The true Amphitryon
Is the Amphitryon who gives dinner.

Amphitryon (1666)

A woman of wit is a devil of intrigue.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

There are bundles and bundles.

Ah that I— You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This suits you very nicely, and you are served right; you have precisely what you deserve.

My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.

The Misanthrope (1666)

It is true that Heaven forbids certain gratifications, but there are means' of compounding with it upon such matters, and of rectifying the evil of the act by the purity of the intention, We shall be able to initiate you into all those secrets...

The temper I am of requires me to keep away from court. Heaven, when it sent me into the world, did not give me a soul suited to the air of courts. I do not find in myself the virtues necessary to succeed, and make my fortune there. My chief talent is to be frank and sincere.

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.

Le Misanthrope (1666)

We have changed all that.

One must eat to live, and not live to eat.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Molière (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.