A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.
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 a greater fool to admire him.