Occupation: Writer Birth: November 17, 1607 Death: June 2, 1701
Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently..
The only rose without thorns is friendship..
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards..
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing..
A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for..
Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes..
Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life..
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument..
It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others..