"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire."

Prazlin, Duchess on happiness   

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image. Another reason we hide is to protect ourselves from change. . . Still another reason we don't disclose ourselves is that we were never taught how. . . Personal ambitions and economic pressures also give us powerful reasons for concealing what we really are. . . All of us hide behind the iron curtain of our public selves. . . Men hide what prevents them from seeming strong and masculine. . . Disclosure is so important (because) without it we really cannot know ourselves. Or to put it another way, we learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. For example, if I never express my sorrow, my love, my joy, I'll smother those feelings in myself until I almost forget they were once part of me."

Jourard, Sidney on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on love
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"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?"

Donne, John on love   

"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms."

Hardy, Thomas on love
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"The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love   

"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing."

Rowland, Helen on love
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"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing."

Rowland, Helen on love
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"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"We that are true lovers run into strange capers."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed."

Teasdale, Sara on love
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"The one who loves least controls the relationship."

Unknown, Source on love
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"There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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"One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched."

Bruyere, Jean De La on love   

"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."

Bowen, Elizabeth on love   

"Lovers should also have their days off."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on love
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."

Adler, Alfred on caution
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"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."

Cervantes, Miguel De on caution
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"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye."

Cervantes, Miguel De on caution
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"Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping."

Hare, A. W. on caution
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"When a fox preaches, take care of your geese."

Proverb on caution
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"Beware of one who has nothing to lose."

Proverb, Italian on caution
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"If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it."

Proverb, Persian on caution   

"Beware of silent dogs and still waters."

Proverb, Portuguese on caution
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

Russell, Bertrand on caution   

"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."

Syrus, Publilius on caution   

"Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage"

Unknown, Source on caution
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"A mousetrap always provides free cheese."

Unknown, Source on caution   

"My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily."

Lawrence, D. H. on love
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"A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress."

Fielding, Henry on love   

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on love
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