I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
Music and dance are all you need.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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