Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Too great haste leads us to error.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
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.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.