Religions which condemn the pleasures of sense drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation as regulated by wisdom.
Excellence then is a state concerned with choice lying in a mean relative...
There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children...
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It’s curative....
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
