From old Florentine novels--moreover, from life: Buona femmina e mala femmina vuol bastone .-- Sacchetti, Nov.

86.
148.

To seduce their neighbour to a favourable opinion, and afterwards to believe implicitly in this opinion of their neighbour--who can do this conjuring trick so well as women?
149.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good--the atavism of an old ideal.
150.

Around the hero everything becomes a tragedy; around the demigod everything becomes a satyr-play; and around God everything becomes--what?
perhaps a "world"?
151.