137. The Chasteest Utterance I Ever Heard

In intercourse with scholars and artists, one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds. The belly is the reason why man does not so readily take himself for a god. When a woman has scholarly inclinations, there is generally something wrong with her sexual nature. It is not enough to possess a talent, one must also have your permission to possess it,. So say the most ancient and the most modern serpents: Where there is the tree of knowledge there is always paradise.