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- O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- The wise man will love; all others will desire.
- Afranius
- The world loves to be deceived.
- Franck Sebastian
- Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again. - Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
- She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. - Hartley Coleridge
- Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save. - John Gay (1685 - 1732)
- She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. - William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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