Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.