I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.