Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

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

Deference and intimacy live far apart.