The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
Nature has always had more force than education.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?