Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Books and marriage go ill together.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.