Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

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.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.