"I know nothing which brings the manly mind down from the heights more than a woman's caresses and that joining of bodies without which one cannot have a wife."

"Sexual abstinence, to avoid lust, is rare among married partners."

"I have decided that there is nothing I should avoid so much as marriage."

"The human nature, which first existed, is praised by these men as being so far less tainted with evil manners?"

"The earthly [city] has made for herself, according to her heart's desire, false gods out of any sources at all, even out of human beings, that she might adore them with sacrifices. The heavenly one, o…"