In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.