Facts are stubborn things. - Alain-René Lesage

In order to know the worth of a virtuous husband, is it not necessary for the wife to be dispirited herself? First, give her a young man of twenty, and not only will she be fine, she'll have a reasonable husband.

To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.