The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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!
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
Love is often the fruit of marriage.