No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.