The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.