“Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”
“Mutual confidence is the pillar of friendship.”
“To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.”
“To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.”
“Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away.”
“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”