Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

The contact of two epidermises.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.