Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
Books and marriage go ill together.
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
I have the knack of easing scruples.
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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