Courtship
They are different ends, but in some way compatible. Marriage has utility, justice, honor and constancy for its share, a flat, but more universal pleasure. Love is found on pleasure and so is more full, lively and sharp, a pleasure inflamed by difficulty, there must be sting and smart in it. Its no longer love without fire and darts. Women are not to blame, at all, when they refuse the rules of life that are introduced in the world for as much as men made them without their consent. There is naturally contention and brawling between us. The strictest friendship we have with them is mixed with tempest and tumult. We deal with them inconsiderately after we’ve found that they are, without comparison, more able and ardent in the practice of love than we.
Socrates said Athens was pleased as ladies do when men court for love, everyone loved to come there to take a turn and pass time. But no one liked it so much to live by code, to live there and make it his permanent home.
When asked of Socrates, Which is better to take a wife or not?, replied,
Choose the course he will repent!
There is a fatality about the hidden parts, let nature endow you, however liberally. Its of no use if your good star fails you in the nick of time.
Three Commerces
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