A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Ah! How annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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.
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
Esteem must be founded on preference to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Long is the road from conception to completion.
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
