Virtue Would Not Make Such Advances If

It Takes More Strength Of Character To Withstand Good Fortune Than Bad.

What We Take For Virtue Is Often But An Assemblage Of Various Ambitions And Activities That Chance, Or Our Own Astuteness, Have Arranged In A Certain Manner; And It Is Not Always Out Of Courage Or Purity That Men Are Brave, And Women Chaste.

In Love Deceit Nearly Always Goes Further Than Mistrust.

Affected Simplicity Is A Subtle Imposture.

Marriage Is The Only War In Which You Sleep With The Enemy.