Baldassare Castiglione Quotes

I would like him to use certain words in a metaphorical sense, whenever it is appropriate, putting them to novel use like a gardener grafting a branch on to a healthier trunk, and so increasing their attractiveness and beauty.

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Who does not realize that without women we can get no pleasure or satisfaction out of life, which but for them we would lack charm and be more uncouth and savage than that of wild beasts? Only women rid our hearts of all vile and base thoughts, anxieties, and miseries. Far from distracting us, they awaken our minds and hearts.