We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.