"If the beloved is a Christian, what concern is it of yours? If she is a pagan, what concern is it of yours?"

"The preacher’s sermon is long and tedious; give me a flask of wine instead."

"Better to be a drunkard and a lover than a pious hypocrite."

"Again the garden has got the glitter of Spring: The nightingale hears good news, for the rose is come. Soft wind returning to the young plants of the meadow, Greet for us the rose, the cypress and the…"

"The pious man, with his rosary and prayer rug, is often more distant from God than the lover in the tavern."