You are a fool in four letters, my son.

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

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

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.