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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière

Quote of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The trees that are slow to...


Biography - Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière:

French playwright and actor.
Born: 1622 - Died: 1673
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Les arbres tardifs sont ceux qui portent les meilleurs fruits.




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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,





You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.





The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable.





Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.





The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.





Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.











Quotes

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière also said...


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





With a smile we should instruct our youth.





Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.





To live without loving is not really to live.





The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy.





I don't know whether it can be or not; but I know well enough that so it is.












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