It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.