Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
We are all very ready to believe what we like.