Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.