And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.