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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin






What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Augustine of Hippo






Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Honore de Balzac






Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato






We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
François de La Rochefoucauld






Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius






To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus






To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo






Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Jean de La Bruyere






Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi






A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire






Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle






War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht






Love and friendship exclude each other.
Jean de La Bruyere






There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso






When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain






The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli






If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
François de La Rochefoucauld






Love conquers all.
Publius Vergilius Maro






Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Nicolas Chamfort






The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare






First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw






Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare






Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard






Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare










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