love quotes

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”

“The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. ”

“It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.”

“Reason is not what decides love.”

“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”

— Aldous Huxley

“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”

— Aldous Huxley

“
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

“I love not man the less, but Nature more. ”

“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. ”

“Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.”

“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ”

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. ”

“Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ”

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”

“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ”

“Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. ”

“Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.”

“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. ”

“Who loves, raves. ”

“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”

“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. ”

“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms. ”

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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