Deference and intimacy live far apart.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.