Eat, drink, and love, what can the rest avail us?
So said the royal Sage Sardanapalus. Noscitur a sociis. In her first passion Woman loves her Lover, / In all the others all She loves is Love. Atoms or systems into ruin hul'd, / And now a bubble burst, and now a world. Medio Tu Tutissimus Ibis.
Dans les premières passions, les femmes aiment lamant;
et dans les autres, elles aiment lamour. Eat, drink, and sport; the rest of life's not worth a fillip, quoth the King. On peut trouver des femmes qui n'ont jamais eu de galanterie;
mais il est rare d'en trouver qui n'en jamais eu qu'une 'Yet there are some, they say, who have had None, / But those who have ne'er end with only One.' 'Fling but a stone, the giant dies.'