Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Patience is God's nature.
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.