What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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 impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.