The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

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.

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

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.

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.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.