I find that it is a folly to wish to study the world like a simple spectator.
15
What, under such happy auspices do you conceive that you may not repent of your endeavour and accomplished wish?
16
Subtility and craft have taken possession of my heart; but under this habit one exhibits both shrewdness and wit.
17
I had the strength of a madman to my own cost, and employed that strength in my own punishment.
18
Suffer me to employ my spare time in some kind of labour.
19
The brilliancy of your wit gives so great a lustre to your complexion and your eyes, that, though it seems that wit should only reach the ears, it is altogether certain that yours dazzles the eyes.
20
Music is the sole talent which gives pleasure of itself; all the others require witnesses.
21
I know princes of the blood, foreign princes, great lords, ministers of state, magistrates, and philosophers who would even spin for love of you. What can you ask more?
22
“What is here?
23
Neighbourhood caused the acquaintance and first introduction.
24
To will the same thing and not to will the same thing, that at length is firm friendship.
25
Think that of all the hearts over which you reign, there is not one in which your empire can be so well established as in mine.
26
Deep in her inmost heart is stirred the immense shame, and madness with commingled grief, and love agitated by rage, and conscious virtue.