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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière

Quote of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The world, dear Agnes, is a...


Biography - Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière:

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

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Le monde, chère Agnès, est une étrange chose.




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See also...



All the world's a stage.




Quotes for: world


Quotes

Quotes about the world:


The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.











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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