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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE
French dramatist and actor
(1622 - 1673)
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Every time I fill a vacant office I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
      - quoting Louis XIV, in Siecle de Louis Quatorze [Politics]

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
      - [Right]

I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.
  [Fr., J'aime mieux un vice commode
    Qu'une fatigante vertu.]
      - Amphitryon (I, 4) [Virtue]

My lord Jupiter knows how to gild the pill.
  [Fr., Le seigneur Jupiter sait dorer la pilule.]
      - Amphitryon (III, 11) [Gods]

The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
  [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon
    Est l'Amphitryon ou l'on dine.]
      - Amphitryon (III, 5) [Eating]

To speak prose without knowing it.
  [Fr., Faire de la prose sans le savoir.]
      - Bourgeois Gentilhomme (II, 6) [Speech]

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
  [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
      - Don Garcie de Navarre (II, 5) [Blushes]

Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
  [Lat., La naissnace n'est rien ou la vertu n'est pas.]
      - Don Juan (IV, 6) [Virtue]

Where does virtue go to lodge?
  [Fr., Ou la vertu va-t-elle se nicher?]
      - Exclamation of Moliere [Virtue]

What the devil was he doing in this galley?
  [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
      - Fourberies de Scapin (act II, 11) [Suspicion]

You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so.
  [Fr., Vous l'avez voulu, vous l'avez voulu, George Dandin, vous l'avez voulu.]
      - George Dandin (act I, sc. 9) [Wishes]

The beautiful eyes of my money-box!
  He speaks of it as a lover of his mistress.
    [Fr., Les beaux veux de ma cassette!
      Il parle d'elle comme un amant d'une maitresse.]
      - L'Avare (V, 3) [Money]

You speak before a man to whom all Naples is known.
  [Fr., Vouz parlez devant un homme a qui tout Naples est connu.]
      - L'Avare (V, 5) [Knowledge]

We are all mortal, and each one is for himself.
  [Fr., Nous sommes tous mortels, et chacun est pour soi.]
      - L'Ecole des Femmes (II, 6) [Death]

If you want to play a trick on me, put your flutes more in accord.
  [Fr., Mettes, pour me jouer, vos flutes mieux d'accord.]
      - L'Etourdi (act I, 4) [Music]

To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
      - L'Etourdi (act III, 6) [Proverbs]

It is Hebrew to me.
  [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
      - L'Etourdi (act III, sc. 3) [Linguists]

Rome can give no dispensation from death.
  [Fr., On n'a point pour la mort de dispense de Rome.]
      - L'Etourdi (II, 4) [Death]

The smallest errors are always the best.
  [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
      - L'Etourdi (IV, 4) [Errors]

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
      - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (act IV, sc. 1) [Friendship]

Act as though I knew nothing.
  [Lat., Faites comme si je ne le savais pas.]
      - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (II, 6) [Knowledge]

The flower called heliotrope turns without ceasing to that star of the day, so also my heart henceforth will turn itself always towards the resplendent stars of you adorable eyes, as towards its only pole.
  [Fr., La fleur nommee heliotrope tourne sans cesse vers cet astre du jour, aussi mon coeur dorenavant tournera-t-il toujours vers les astres resplendissants de vos yeux adorables, ainsi que son pole unique.]
      - Le Malade Imaginaire (act II, sc. 6) [Love]

Ah, there are no children nowadays.
  [Fr., Ah, il n'y a plus d'enfant.]
      - Le Malade Imaginaire (II, 2) [Childhood]

The republic of letters.
  [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
      - Le Mariage force (sc. 6) [Literature]

We have changed all that.
  [Fr., Nous avons change tout cela.]
      - Le Medeccin Malgre lui (II, 6) [Change]

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