The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

For hope is always born at the same time as love.

Where there's music there can be no evil.

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

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.