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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.