But to the end of his long life the wives and daughters of his nearest friends were not safe from his licentious plots.

The ribaldry of his conversation moved astonishment even in that age.

To the religion of his country he offered, in the mere wantonness of impiety, insults too foul to be described.

His mendacity and his effrontery passed into proverbs.

Of all the liars of his time he was the most deliberate, the most inventive and the most circumstantial.
What shame meant he did not seem to understand.