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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière

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Biography - Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière:

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

All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Tout ce qui n'est point prose, est vers; et tout ce qui n'est point vers, est prose.




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





With a smile we should instruct our youth.





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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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