“Behind every fortune there is a crime.”
“A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.”
“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
“A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.”
“In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
“Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.”
“Corruption wins not more than honesty.”
“They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.”