Book: The life of Monsieur de Moliere

Will go away into the coming centuries!

wives contain a number of extreme obscenities uttered from the stage. It is quite understandable that after this notification, not a single chaste lady remained in Paris, she would not wish to personally check all the nasty things that Moliere allowed himself to introduce into the play.

How can I measure my love for you? How can I, ungrateful, prove it to you? Crying bitter tears? Or pulling your hair out? Tell me, tell me what you want.

The king did not at all treat the higher nobility of France well and did not at all consider himself the first among the nobles. According to Louis, his power was divine and he stood completely separate and immeasurably higher than everyone in the world.

The doers of destinies can dispose of all destinies, except for their own.

Unhappy mighty of this world! How often they build their fortresses on the sand!

In the history of mankind, many embezzlers have been noted. But one of the most brilliant, undoubtedly, was Nicolas Fouquet, who held at the time described the position of the chief manager of the finances of France. To perpetrate such a robbery of the state treasury, which Fouquet did, rarely did anyone succeed. In the end, Fouquet completely lost the idea of where government money ends and his own begins.

Moliere was right when he addressed dedications to the king and his brother. If he had acted differently, who knows, would not his biography have become somewhat shorter than it is now?

The failure was accompanied by the same thing that accompanies every failure of a playwright - the wild joy of enemies, the tearful sympathy of friends, which is many times worse than the joy of the enemy.

The major mistake that Molière made during this period of his life was this: he listened to the bad things that were said about him, and the insults that he should have left without any attention hurt him.

Don't rape your talent!

Satire, indeed, as every literate knows, is honest, but it is unlikely that there is at least one person in the world who would present the authorities with a model of permissible satire.

Laughed at ten pistols!

Experienced playwrights know that in order to determine whether their play is a success with the public or not, you should not harass parents with questions whether their play is good, or read reviews. There is an easier way: you need to go to the cashier and ask what the collection is.