The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human …

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

The hair is real; it's the head that's fake.

Basically there's a gulf between truth and untruth, I don't want to be too mathematical about it, because I'm not very good at maths. But it's a divide between…

Je veux qu'on me voit en ma facon simple, naturelle, et ordinaire, sans etude et artifice; car c'est moi que je peins...Je suis moi-meme la matiere de mon livr…