In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.