True love cannot be divided, and must be voluntary and unconstrained.
The viper deserves no blame for its sting, although it be mortal—because it is the gift of Nature.
Beauty in a modest woman is like fire or a sharp sword at a distance; neither doth the one burn nor the other wound those that come not too near them.
Honor and virtue are ornaments of the soul, without which the body, though it be really beautiful, ought not to be thought so.
Let him who is deceived complain.