Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

There will be vice as long as there are men

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

The illicit has an added charm