True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Why do you not practise what you preach.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.