God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed… - C. S. Lewis

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat,’ than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers. In battle it is not syllogisms that will keep the reluctant nerves and muscles to their post in the third hour of the bombardment.

A man, an adult, is precisely what <nowiki>[</nowiki>Aeneas<nowiki>]</nowiki> is: Achilles had been little more than a passionate boy.