"Stripped of my clothes, naked, I climbed into a tree. My bare thighs in a close embrace pressed the smooth damp bark.…"

"When he returned, I hid my face with my two hands. He said to me: "Fear nothing. Who has seen our kissing?" — "Who ha…"

"I will leave the bed as she has left it, unmade and rumpled, the covers wrinkled, in order that the imprint of her fo…"

"Mother inexhaustible, incorruptible, creatrix, first-born, self-conceived, self-created, enjoyed of thyself alone and…"

"She lay upon her bosom, with her elbows in front of her, her legs wide apart and her cheek resting on her hand, prick…"

"“At Ephesos, in our country, when two virgins of nubile age like Rhodis and me love one another, the law allows them …"

"If, in the course of their stray amours, they conceived a son, he was brought up in the temple-enclosure in the conte…"

"“From the point of view of love, woman is a perfect instrument. From head to foot she is constructed, solely, marvell…"

"Human love is to be distinguished from the rut of animals only by two divine functions: the caress and the kiss."

"King Pausole dispensed justice from under a cherry tree, for, he was wont to say, that tree gives just as much shade …"