There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.