There's Nothing People Can't Contrive

Most People Die From The Remedy Rather Than From The Illness.

What! Would You Make No Distinction Between Hypocrisy And Devotion? Would You Give Them The Same Names, And Respect The Mask As You Do The Face? Would You Equate Artifice And Sincerity? Confound Appearance With Truth? Regard The Phantom As The Very Person? Value Counterfeit As Cash?

The Impromptu Reply Is Precisely The Touchstone Of The Man Of Wit.

Malicious Men May Die, But Malice Never.

It May Cost Me Twenty Thousand Francs; But For Twenty Thousand Francs, I Will Have The Right To Rail Against The Iniquity Of Humanity, And To Devote To It My Eternal Hatred.