Those who are believed to be most self-abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious.
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Old men love to give good advice to console themselves for not being able to set bad examples.[Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons préceptes, pour se consoler de n’être plus en état de donner de mauvais exemples.]
O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
O, fie, fie, fie! Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.[Les hommes ne haïssent celui qu’ils appellent avare que parce qu’il n’y a rien à gagner avec lui.]
Manners are the hypocrisy of nations, and hypocrisy is more or less perfect.[Les mœurs sont l’hypocrisie des nations; l’hypocrisie est plus ou moins perfectionnée.]
Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.[Il est plus aisé d’être sage pour les autres que de l’être pour soi-même.]
