"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable."
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Source: No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. The Physiology of Marriage Meditation V, Aphorism 28
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