No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

How strange a thing is the heart of man!

Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure

There are as many sorts of women as there are women.