A Woman Should Soften But Not Weaken A Man

“There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.”

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”