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An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later read more
Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later torments himThen makes us repent our mistakes
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.
Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.
There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.
A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking read more
A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they read more
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters read more
The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. "All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable," stated the Malleus Maleficarum.
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you read more
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.