“Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back”
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“Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back”
“Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves”
“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic”
“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never”
“He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage, he won't encounter many rivals.”
“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams”
“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it”
“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar”
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”
“Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband”
“The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.”
“Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.”
“Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.”