I recover my property wherever I find it.
[Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
Plagiarism
Quotes, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere , Source: Les Fourberies de Scapin, Cyrano de Bergerac used a scene in "Pedant Joue" communicated to him by Mo
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All extremes does perfect reason flee,
And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
[Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute extremite,
Et veut que l'on soit sage avec sobriete.]
Reason
Quotes, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere , Source: Le Misanthrope (I, 1)
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air,
For that without it were else a miserable affair.
[Fr., L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire,
Et que sans lui le reste est une triste affaire.]
Gold
Quotes, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere , Source: Sganarelle (I)
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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.]
Wishes
Quotes, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere , Source: George Dandin (act I, sc. 9)
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high
hands makes them obey its laws.
[Fr., La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois,
Et les fait, la main haute, obeir a ses lois.]
Language
Quotes, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere , Source: Les Femmes Savantes (II, 6)
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page
of a book.
[Fr., Une louange en grec est d'une merveilleuse efficace a la
tete d'un livre.]
Language
Quotes, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere , Source: Preface--Les Precieuses Ridicules
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