Old age is women's hell.
What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.
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.
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.