Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so and would do so if he could he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute don't accept, because you will lose one friend, on the other hand if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend.