I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

The argument is at an end.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.