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
dance skills dancing
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
wit touchstones
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
long dies long-time
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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!
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?
world whole-world whole
I will maintain it before the whole world.
courage wells piety
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
wise perfect sobriety
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
passion smoking literature
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
malice
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
society trying world
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
fate artist ignorant
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
lonely stubborn crowds
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
death rome grants
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.