They judge men solely according to their capacity for, or their zeal in, loving.

And yet it takes more strength and manliness to resist love than to give way to it.

They only care for men who are slaves to that passion.

I admire those chaste and saintly men who have been able to cast off the bonds of the flesh.

The highest point of the human mind is only reached by him who has never suffered himself to be dragged down by his senses.