None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

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

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.