A bad man will occasionally do a good action. One might say that he wishes to see whether it gives as much pleasure as honest folk assert.
Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence. Vice would not be absolute vice did it not hate virtue.
One suspects the idleness of a knave and the silence of a fool.
Generosity is the pitifulness of noble hearts.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.