You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

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

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.