Sects differ more in name than tenets.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.