"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

"What did it profit that I read the greatest human ideas of the so-called 'liberal arts' in the books I got hold of. My thinking was enslaved to corrupt desires, so what difference did it make that I c…"

"He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon."

"There is no possible source of evil except good."

"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."