It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.