Are we not all desperate one way or another?
Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.
I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.