A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.