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

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

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.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Music and dance are all you need.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death