What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.
What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Even pleasure cloys without variety.
Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.