The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.

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.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.