Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.