Tao Te Ching

“Helen has become a love cry—to this day every woman reflects her splendor. She traverses the centuries, awakens in every man the yearning for kisses and perpetuation. She transforms every woman we clasp to our breast... sexual desire assumes exalted titles of nobility. At her touch ugly children become beautiful”

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