What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.
Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.