“Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?”

“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.”

“How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.”

“You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.”

“He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.”

“Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.”

“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”

“We were just looking at maps...”

“You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”

“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”

“Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young wom...”