Moliere

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

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has...

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Reason is not what decides love.

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

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

We die only once, and for such a long time.