Quote #17
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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- Nocte latent mendae, vitioque ignoscitur omni, Horaque formosam quamlibet illa facit.
- Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
- Expedit esse deos, et, ut expedit, esse putemus.
- Pure women are only those who have not been asked.
- Let love steal in disguised as friendship.
- Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
- Nothing is stronger than habit.
- Medio tutissimus ibis.