Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
Satire is the disease of art.
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.