Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.