We are easily duped by those we love.
Reason is not what decides love.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
How easy love makes fools of us.
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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.
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.