And these politicians who think they are the only true philosophers in the world — so full of fake seriousness, or claiming to love virtue — what wretches they really are! How vile and contemptible they are! Oh man, what a fuss you make! Do what your nature requires now. Make up your mind, if you can. Don't worry whether anyone will know about it or not.
And these your professed politicians, the only true practical philosophers of the world, (as they think of themselves) so full of affected gravity, or such professed lovers of virtue and honesty, what wretches be they in very deed; how vile and contemptible in themselves? O man! what ado doest thou keep? Do what thy nature doth now require. Resolve upon it, if thou mayest: and take no thought, whether anybody shall know it or no.