We are easily duped by those we love.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.