I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.