One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.
It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.