A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

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

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

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?