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

"He who is not jealous is not in love."

"Nothing is worse than a house where the woman commands and the man obeys."

"In Paradise, our bodies were entirely subject to the will's bidding. As such, Adam could have commanded his body for sexual purposes merely by a rational act, and children... would have been generated…"

"Even in those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression; that is, who had not yet sinned of their own individual will, as Adam did, but had drawn from him original sin."