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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
[Women]

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no eulegy.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Whether they give or refuse, women are glad to have been asked.
[Women]

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

While prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.
[Prosperity]

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

You will go most safely in the middle.


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