The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Few men have been admired by their own domestics

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity