A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ""I believe,"" three times.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.