“Rare is the union of beauty and purity ”
— Juvenal
“Rare is the union of beauty and purity ”
— Juvenal
“I can resist everything except temptation”
“Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless ”
“Patience is a virtue”
“Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a little blind. ”
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties”