True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Assassination's the fastest way.