It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
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.
Ignorance is not innocence.
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
Life is too short to be able to love as one should.