Ich wage es zu behaupten, daß es sehr nachtheilig ist, stets redlich zu sein: aber fromm, treu, menschlich, gottesfürchtig, redlich zu scheinen ist sehr nützlich. Man muß sein Gemüth so bilden, daß man, wenn es nothwendig ist, auch das Gegentheil davon vorbringen könne.
And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.