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therefore do you take care how you become the patient.
Seraphic love is the bliss of angels, mutual love the comfort of mankind, natural love the chain of the world, but lustful love the mother of misfortune.
To love a wife is our duty, to love a friend is our interest, but to love a courtezan is a dangerous ventnre.
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CHAP. IV.
OF THE MALICE AND REVENGE OF WOMAN.
Of all passions, that of revenge is the most opposite to reason and good humour: it will so far blind and deceive the judgment, that persons under this madness value not what injuries they do themselves in rashly attempting some trifling prejudice to an adversary. This passion in woman springs mostly from the envenomed seeds of corrupted love; (as the best wine once turned becomes the sharpest vinegar) and is so predominant in this sex, that they value nothing they do to accomplish those cnds in which the sweetness of their revenge is centered; and as they love to extrcmcs, every little neglect they construe a great slight, and through their weakness, mistake accident often for design, and fling themselves by their own whimsies and conceits, into an evil opinion of person whom they love.
