When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

- Philippe Nericault Destouches

The absent are always in the wrong

- Philippe Nericault Destouches

Those not present are always wrong.

- Philippe Nericault Destouches

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

- Philippe Nericault Destouches

Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.

- Philippe Nericault Destouches