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Molière
Molière
- One should eat to live, and not live to eat.L'Avare (1669) act 3, sc. 1
- All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1671) act 2, sc. 4
- Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1671) act 2, sc. 4
- One dies only once, and it's for such a long time!Le Dépit amoureux (performed 1656, published 1662) act 5, sc. 3
- He who lives without tobacco is not worthy to live.Don Juan (performed 1665)
- A knowledgeable fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool.Les Femmes savantes (1672)
- Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?What the devil was he doing in that galley?Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671) act 2, sc. 11
- Oui, cela était autrefois ainsi, mais nous avons changé tout cela.Yes, in the old days that was so, but we have changed all that.Le Médecin malgré lui (1667) act 2, sc. 4
- One should look long and carefully at oneself before one considers judging others.Le Misanthrope (1666)
- It is public scandal that constitutes offence, and to sin in secret is not to sin at all.Le Tartuffe (1669)
- The envious may die, but envy, never.Le Tartuffe (1669)
