I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.