Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.
Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.