Moliere

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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.

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.