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“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.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Absence - that common cure of love.”
Lord Byron
“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Lord Byron
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Lord Byron
“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.”
Lord Byron
“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.”
Lord Byron
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
Lord Byron
“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.”
Lord Byron
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Lord Byron
“Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.”
Lord Byron
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Lord Byron
“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.”
Lord Byron
“Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.”
Lord Byron
“Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.”
Lord Byron
“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.”
Lord Byron
“Who loves, raves.”
Lord Byron
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
Lord Byron
“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.”
Lord Byron
“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”
Lord Byron
“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.”
Lord Byron
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“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
“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
