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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière

Quote of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - With a smile we should instruct...


Biography - Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière:

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

With a smile we should instruct our youth.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Il nous faut en riant instruire la jeunesse.

German
Man soll die Jugend lachend unterrichten.




See also 

See also...



Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.




Quotes for: youth


Quotes

Quotes about youth:


The storms of youth occur between days of brilliant sunshine.





For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.





Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.





I nothing had, and yet enough for youth -
Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth.
Give unrestrained, the old emotion,
The bliss that touched the verge of pain,
The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion, -
O, give me back my youth again!






It takes a long time to become young.





Youth has no age.











Quotes for: education


Quotes

Quotes about education:


It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.





Education is another sun to those who are educated.





The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.





All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.











Quotes

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


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





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.





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












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