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Quote of William Shakespeare - Love looks not with the eyes...


Biography - William Shakespeare:

English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.




Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Liebe schaut nicht mit den Augen, sondern mit der Seele, und darum wird der geflügelte Amor blind gemalt.

French
L'amour ne voit pas avec les yeux, mais avec l'âme ; et voilà pourquoi l'ailé Cupidon est peint aveugle.




See also 

See also...






Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: mind


Quotes

Quotes about mind:


Hide your life and spread your spirit.





A healthy mind in a healthy body.





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.





When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.





It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.





My spirit yearns for action, my breath for freedom.











Quotes

William Shakespeare also said...


How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.





To be, or not to be, that is the question.





There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.






What's done cannot be undone.





Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.





What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;













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