Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.