His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
Satire is the disease of art.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.