There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.