What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.