I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

How easy love makes fools of us.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

We are easily duped by those we love.

A woman always has her revenge ready.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.