Işıl ışıl bir ilkbahar günüydü. Volga göz alabildiğine uzanıyordu; dünya geniş, uğul uğuldu. Bense bugüne dek bodrumda bir fare gibi yaşamıştım. Karar verdim, patronların yanına dönmeyecektim.
Greeks attributed much less importance to all these questions than we do. But once all that is granted or assumed, one point still remains irreducible: they nonetheless concerned themselves with such matters, and there were Greek thinkers, moralists, philosophers, and doctors who believed that what the laws of the city prescribed or prohibited, what the general customs tolerated or rejected, could not suffice to regulate properly the sexual conduct of a man who cared about himself. The manner in which this kind of pleasure was enjoyed was considered by them to be an ethical problem.