To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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.

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.