Tao Te Ching

“But we did not allow women, even the dearest, to lead us astray. We did not follow their flower-strewn road, we took them with us. No, we did not take them, these dauntless companions followed our ascents of their own free will.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco