Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Blushes cannot be counterfeited.

For in moments of absolute darkness, even a glimmer blurs your vision, But if you dare to look back at it, you feel his presence, you know you are here for a reason !! #MyExperiencewith498A

‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.

The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.

Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and this true.

Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.