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
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!
knowledge two literature
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
reading book single-life
Books and marriage go ill together.
worry people happens
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
enlightenment blind reason
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
learning past reason
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
honesty heart men
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
death medicine people
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
long desire arms
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
honor jupiter adultery
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
names giving hypocrisy
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
knack scruples
I have the knack of easing scruples.
order guests reign
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
curiosity desire want
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.