Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope