The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.