Great Throughts Treasury

"Love is often a fruit of marriage."

"Man is, I confess, a wicked creature."

"May malicious men die, never intended malice."

"Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives."

"Music is not accustomed to do what we want."

"My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship."

"My lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill."

"Nearly all men die of their remedies, not of their diseases."

"No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living."

"Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal."

"No one shall have wit save we and our friends."

"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."

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

"Of course heaven forbids certain pleasures, but one finds means of compromise."

"Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two."

"Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same."

"On any preference esteem is based, and it is estimated that estimating everyone there."

"On some preference esteem is based;"

"One dies only once, and then for such a long time!"

"One is easily fooled by that which one loves."

"One must eat to live and not live to eat."

"One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."

"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others."

"One should eat to live, and not live to eat."

"People do not mind being wicked; but they object to being made ridiculous."

"People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything."

"Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation."

"Reason is not what decides love."

"Repartee is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit."

"Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honor is assailed."

"Rome can give no dispensation from death."

"She is laughing up her sleeve at you, my brother."

"She is like ivy, which grows beautifully so long as it twines round a tree, but is of no use when separated."

"Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty."

"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 expired."

"Tell me to whom you are addressing yourself when you say that. I am addressing myself?I am addressing myself to my cap."

"That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means."

"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."

"The beautiful eyes of my cash-box."

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

"The flower called heliotrope turns without ceasing to that star of the day, so also my heart henceforth will turn itself always towards the resplendent stars of you adorable eyes, as towards its only pole."

"The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine."

"The greatest weakness of men, it is their love of life."

"The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit."

"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."

"The nature itself, when we let them, gently pull the disorder where it fell."

"The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners."

"The road is long from the project to its completion."

"The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence."

"The smallest errors are always the best."