I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
To live without loving is not really to live.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
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.