Moliere

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Yes, if we were prepared to be honest we might rid ourselves of much self deception.

Virtue on earth is persecuted ever; the envious die, but envy never.

There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.

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

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.