They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
No one every suddenly became depraved.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?