Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.