How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

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

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.