What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.
How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!
All just laws condemn cruelty.
For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.