What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up? All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. |