Reason is not what decides love.
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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.