As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
To some people everything is permitted.
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
Ignorance is not innocence.