A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Self love is the instrument of our preservation.
Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.
The best is the enemy of the good.
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.