To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.