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To love is to find one's riches outside oneself.
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Éléments de philosophie / 






Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
Alfred de Musset - À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles / 



Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

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Whoever you are, here is your master:
He is, was or will be.

Voltaire - Poésies mêlées / 






Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde / 



Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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One must not trifle with love.
Alfred de Musset - On ne badine pas avec l'amour / 



One must not trifle with love.




Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein / 






I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus - Carnets / 






If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night / 






Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 






We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Jean de La Bruyere / 






Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare - All's Well That Ends Well / 






Love conquers all
Publius Vergilius Maro - Eclogues / 






Now I know what love is.
Publius Vergilius Maro / 






I nothing had, and yet enough for youth -
Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth.
Give unrestrained, the old emotion,
The bliss that touched the verge of pain,
The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion, -
O, give me back my youth again!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 






It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo / 






Good sense and genius beget esteem and regard: Wit and humour excite love and affection.
David Hume / 






It is not love we should have painted blind, but self-love.
Voltaire / 






Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Albert Einstein / 






To love is to act.
Victor Hugo / 






There my life began when I loved you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris / 






While love may overcome death, it happens that a small, mean habit can overcome love.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 






Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor W. Adorno / 






In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France / 



In art as in love, instinct is enough.




Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphics of Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The School for Wives / 



Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.




To live without loving is not really to live.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - La Princesse d'Élide / 



To live without loving is not really to live.




One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir / 






There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal / 






Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust / 



Love is space and time measured by the heart.




The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo / 










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