When you think him inconsistent with himself he is really faithful to his vocation.

He is a painter copying with equal truth a Madonna and a courtesan.

Moliere is as true to nature in his old men as in his young ones, and Moliere's judgment was assuredly a sound and healthy one.

These witty paradoxes might be dangerous for second-rate minds, but they have no real influence on the character of great men." Charles Mignon pressed La Briere's hand.
"That adaptability, however, leads a man to excuse himself in his own eyes for actions that are diametrically opposed to each other; above all, in politics." "Ah, mademoiselle," Canalis was at this moment saying, in a caressing voice, replying to a roguish remark of Modeste, "do not think that a multiplicity of emotions can in any way lessen the strength of feelings.
Poets, even more than other men, must needs love with constancy and faith.

You must not be jealous of what is called the Muse.