The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.