Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women let it pass for when love is in the way men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying...
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly I renew them I enjoy them...
My success and my misfortunes the bright and the dark days I have gone...
Men always makes gods in their own image.
The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit...
