Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections. . . nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desire and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them.
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. . .
Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for a corrupted people to set up a good government, or for a tyranny to be introduced if they be virtuous; and makes this conclusion, 'That where the matter (that is, the body of the people) is not corrupted, tumults and disorders do not hurt; and where it is corrupted, good laws do no good:' which being confirmed by reason and experience, I think no wise man has ever contradicted him.
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Quick enough, if good enough.
If you know what you're looking for, the illustrations might give you a tip about what is coming in that section. But it takes a lot of study and familiarity with the work for anyone to really "decode" it, and there are also images that are just thematically important, and not necessarily pointing to specific poems, so mainly it was just a fun puzzle for ourselves.
When we're younger we take our bodies for granted because they're top-notch. You don't always think in the long run.