Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
Sects differ more in name than tenets.
Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.