Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
One must choose between loving women and knowing them.
Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.
There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.