| Quotes |
Topic |
| Admiration | A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. |
| Advice | A fop sometimes gives important advice. |
| Advice | The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. |
| Churches | To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. |
| Eating | A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. |
| Evil | Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. |
| Folly | A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. |
| Honor | Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. |
| Names | I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. |
| Oratory | Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. |
| Pleasure | Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. |
| Poets | Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. |
| Poverty | Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. |
| Religion | Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? |
| Satisfaction | He pleases every one but can not please himself. |
| Satisfaction | No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. |
| Satisfaction | Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. |
| Speech | That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. |
| Speech | Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. |
| Time | Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. |
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