"Having children is the only worthy fruit of sexual intercourse."

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

"I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love... I sought what I might love, in love with loving."

"Day after day I postponed living in you, but I never put off the death which I died each day in myself. I longed for a life of happiness but I was frightened to approach it in its own domain; and yet,…"

"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."