Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.