For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

It requires a long time to know anyone.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.