Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.