Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.