One can be well-bred and write bad poetry
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!