Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.