To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.
Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.
To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.