What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.
Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.
Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.