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“No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”
Plato
“There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.”
Plato
“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”
Plato
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
Plato
“Great loves too must be endured.”
Coco Chanel
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
Coco Chanel
“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
Karl Marx
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
Aristotle
“Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.”
Aristotle
“No one loves the man whom he fears.”
Aristotle
“Friends show their love in times of trouble.”
Euripides
“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
Euripides
“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.”
Euripides
“The greatest pleasure of life is love.”
Euripides
“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”
Euripides
“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.”
Salvador Dali
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
Stendhal
“If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.”
Stendhal
“People happy in love have an air of intensity.”
Stendhal
“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.”
Stendhal
“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.”
Stendhal
“Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.”
Stendhal
“To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.”
Stendhal
“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.”
Stendhal
“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.”
Stendhal
“Friendship has its illusions no less than love”
Stendhal
“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.”
Stendhal
“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”
Stendhal
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Honore de Balzac
