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There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo





If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld





There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
François de La Rochefoucauld





It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon





At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato





We do not judge the people we love.
Jean-Paul Sartre / 





Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine





It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
François de La Rochefoucauld





To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato





Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore de Balzac





The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo





If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin / 





Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin





If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne





I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde





We pardon to the extent that we love.
François de La Rochefoucauld





The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw





Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Honore de Balzac





There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
François de La Rochefoucauld





Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde





What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Augustine of Hippo





He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin





Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde





He that is jealous is not in love.
Augustine of Hippo





Love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine of Hippo





In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
François de La Rochefoucauld





It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
Voltaire





The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus





The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
Honore de Balzac






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