Jean-François Regnard, "the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century", was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681... (wikipedia)
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.
To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
We love without reason, and without reason we hate.