Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.