Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.