Deference and intimacy live far apart.

But it is not reason that governs love.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.