Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.