lips made of ivory & gold
i'm not sentimental--i'm as romantic as you are. the idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
— Aristotle
Refraining from pleasure cultivates temperance, and it is through temperance that we can abstain from pleasure.
— Aristotle