Dramatist

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!