Marry a man older than you and not a younger man, who will tire of you. When the husband is a hen and the wife is a cock, the house is topsy-turvy. A neck without a head, buttocks without a hole and a girl without shame are not worth admiring or marrying. Marriage is a lick of honey and a barrel of bitter. The wagtail hops and flaps its wings, but the male dove feeds and coos.
Man is a faggot of thorns.
We are all flesh and blood. In this world a pint of sweetness and a barrel of bitterness. He who has had no experience of evil cannot know the worth of what is good. Mountain does not meet mountain, but a face meets another face. In the world there are more insane than sane.