Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.