You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
Music and dance are all you need.
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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.
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.