Do what I want. Well, that's great advice. But what if the thing I want most in all the world can't be done?

But was there really any place on earth where he could be free of this?

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far …

A man who has loved the perfect lover isn't likely to find a substitute very soon

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

Hearken with your ears to these best counsels, Reflect upon them with illumined judgment. Let each one choose his creed with that freedom of choice each must h…