When a woman is plain, people say, 'What beautiful eyes you have, beautiful hair.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.