He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.