Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
The face, not the woman is the attraction.
No one ever suddenly became depraved.
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.