"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.