Original text (French)
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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