You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

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.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.