Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

Moliere - The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere - The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." - Moliere.

"๊ณ ๋‚œ์ด ํด์ˆ˜๋ก ๊ทน๋ณตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ์˜ ๊ธฐ์จ๋„ ํฌ๋‹ค." - ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ์—๋ฅด.


Moliรจre – "The Greater the Obstacle, the More Glory in Overcoming It."

Moliรจre, born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, is widely regarded as the greatest comic playwright in the history of French literature. Despite being born into a prosperous upholstery merchant family with a secured royal appointment, he abandoned a comfortable future to pursue his passion for theater. He founded his own troupe, faced bankruptcy, was briefly imprisoned for debt, and spent over a decade touring the French provinces before finally winning the favor of King Louis XIV. His masterpieces — including Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, and The Imaginary Invalid — remain performed worldwide more than 350 years later.

๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ์—๋ฅด๋Š” 1622๋…„ ์žฅ๋ฐ”ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ ํฌํด๋žญ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ด๋ฆ„์œผ๋กœ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚ฌ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ๋ฌธํ•™์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ํฌ๊ทน ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋„๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™•์‹ค ๋‚ฉํ’ˆ๊ถŒ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ์‹ค๋‚ด์žฅ์‹ ์ƒ์ธ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚˜ ์•ˆ์ •๋œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์žฅ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ทน์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ด์ •์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ์‚ถ์„ ํฌ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ทน๋‹จ์„ ์„ธ์› ์ง€๋งŒ ํŒŒ์‚ฐ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋นš ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ž ์‹œ ํˆฌ์˜ฅ๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 10๋…„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ์ง€๋ฐฉ์„ ์ˆœํšŒํ•œ ๋์— ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ๋ฃจ์ด 14์„ธ์˜ ์ด์• ๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒ€๋ฅดํŠ€ํ”„, ์ธ๊ฐ„ ํ˜์˜ค์ž, ์ƒ์ƒ๋ณ‘ ํ™˜์ž ๋“ฑ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฑธ์ž‘๋“ค์€ 350๋…„์ด ์ง€๋‚œ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์—๋„ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ณต์—ฐ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Why Great Obstacles Create Great Glory

Moliรจre's words reveal a timeless truth about human achievement. Easy victories are quickly forgotten, but triumphs born from immense struggle become legendary. An obstacle forces us to dig deeper, think creatively, and summon strength we never knew we possessed. The difficulty itself is what gives the achievement its weight and meaning. Without resistance, there is no growth; without challenge, there is no story worth telling. Moliรจre understood this not as abstract philosophy but as lived experience — every setback on his path to theatrical greatness sharpened his art and deepened his resolve.

๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ์—๋ฅด์˜ ๋ง์€ ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์„ฑ์ทจ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ดˆ์›”ํ•œ ์ง„์‹ค์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‰ฌ์šด ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ์žŠํžˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณ ๋‚œ ์†์—์„œ ํƒ„์ƒํ•œ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ „์„ค์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ํŒŒ๊ณ ๋“ค๊ณ , ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ์ฒ˜ ์•Œ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ํž˜์„ ๋Œ์–ด๋‚ด๋„๋ก ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ ค์›€ ๊ทธ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ์ทจ์— ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ์™€ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํ•ญ์ด ์—†์œผ๋ฉด ์„ฑ์žฅ๋„ ์—†๊ณ , ๋„์ „์ด ์—†์œผ๋ฉด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•  ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋„ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ์—๋ฅด๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์„ ์ถ”์ƒ์ ์ธ ์ฒ ํ•™์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ทน์  ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ ์œ„์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ขŒ์ ˆ์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐˆ๊ณ ๋‹ฆ๊ณ  ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Moliรจre's Life: A Testament to His Own Words

Few artists embodied their own philosophy as completely as Moliรจre did. After founding the Illustre Thรฉรขtre in Paris at age 21, the venture collapsed under crushing debt within two years. Rather than surrender, he took his troupe to the provinces and spent thirteen grueling years perfecting his craft far from the spotlight. When he finally returned to Paris, his comedies were so brilliant that the King himself became his patron. Yet even at the height of fame, Moliรจre faced relentless attacks — the Church condemned Tartuffe, rival playwrights plotted against him, and chronic illness plagued his final years. He literally died performing, collapsing on stage during The Imaginary Invalid. His glory was inseparable from his obstacles.

์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์„ ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ์—๋ฅด๋งŒํผ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฒดํ˜„ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋“œ๋ญ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 21์„ธ์— ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ผ๋คผ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅด ๊ทน๋‹จ์„ ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 2๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋นš์œผ๋กœ ๊ทน๋‹จ์ด ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹ , ๊ทน๋‹จ์„ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ์ง€๋ฐฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋– ๋‚˜ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณณ์—์„œ 13๋…„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋œ ์„ธ์›” ๋™์•ˆ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์™„์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ์˜ ํฌ๊ทน์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚˜ ์™•์ด ์ง์ ‘ ๊ทธ์˜ ํ›„์›์ž๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ช…์„ฑ์˜ ์ •์ ์—์„œ๋„ ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ์—๋ฅด๋Š” ๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์— ์‹œ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตํšŒ๋Š” ํƒ€๋ฅดํŠ€ํ”„๋ฅผ ๋น„๋‚œํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ๊ทน์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ชจํ•จํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์งˆํ™˜์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ง๋…„์„ ๊ดด๋กญํ˜”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ณต์—ฐ ์ค‘์— ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ƒ์ƒ๋ณ‘ ํ™˜์ž ๊ณต์—ฐ ๋„์ค‘ ๋ฌด๋Œ€ ์œ„์—์„œ ์“ฐ๋Ÿฌ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์˜๊ด‘์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Embrace Your Obstacles as Fuel for Greatness

Moliรจre's message speaks directly to anyone facing hardship today. The obstacles before you — financial pressure, rejection, self-doubt, or fierce competition — are not signs that you are on the wrong path. They are the very raw materials from which glory is forged. Every entrepreneur who built a company from nothing, every artist who created despite criticism, and every individual who rose after falling knows this truth. Do not wish for an easier road; instead, develop the strength to walk a harder one. The greater your obstacle, the more magnificent your story will be.

๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ์—๋ฅด์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์–ด๋ ค์›€์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์•ž์— ๋†“์ธ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ — ์žฌ์ •์  ์••๋ฐ•, ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ, ์ž๊ธฐ ์˜์‹ฌ, ์น˜์—ดํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ — ์€ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ๊ธธ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์˜๊ด‘์„ ๋นš์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ์›์žฌ๋ฃŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์—์„œ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์„ธ์šด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ์—…๊ฐ€, ๋น„ํŒ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ์ฐฝ์ž‘ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€, ๋„˜์–ด์ง„ ๋’ค ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ผ์–ด์„  ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ด ์ง„์‹ค์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ์‰ฌ์šด ๊ธธ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”. ๋Œ€์‹  ๋” ํž˜๋“  ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑธ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํž˜์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฅด์„ธ์š”. ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์ด ํด์ˆ˜๋ก, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ์žฅ์—„ํ•ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



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