Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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Men love newfangleness.
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