To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

There's a lot of pretext strikes, I can tell you, ... That's part of what a judge has to do, is find out if that [reason cited by a lawyer] is true.

Wicked,