Relationships Sayings

22 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 22 authors

Whoever enters into marriage, enters a cloister full of struggles.

— Martin Luther Undated
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It is always better to be diligent, for he who toils with honor dies content, while he who is lazy sleeps with the diligent man's wife.

— Benjamin Franklin Unknown, likely 18th century
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The more I see of people, the more I love my dog.

— Frederick the Great Approx. 18th Century
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I do wish thou wert a dog, that I might love thee something.

— William Shakespeare c. 1605-1608
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

— Jonathan Swift c. 1711-1726
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The world is a garden, love is its flower. And sometimes, you get weeds.

— Guru Nanak Modern
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I do not love to dispute about religion. I had rather feel it.

— John Wesley 1746
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What is it that induces a man to be a philosopher? It is not the love of truth, but the love of fame, or the love of novelty, or the love of power.

— Isaac Newton Uncertain
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Must I be forced to make a husband of a man that I cannot affect?

— Elizabeth I 1563
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I love the truth, but I do not always tell it.

— Catherine the Great Circa 1780s
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The love of truth is the first step towards wisdom.

— John Locke 1706 (posthumous)
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Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

— Francis Bacon 1625
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To be feared is much safer than to be loved.

— Machiavelli 1532
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There is no nation in the world that is more in love with its own government than the English.

— Montesquieu 1729-1731 (published posthumously)
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To be more loved than esteemed is a precarious tenure.

— Mary Wollstonecraft 1792
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The highest form of love is to be the love of God.

— Erasmus Unknown
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Man is full of desires: he loves all that he can obtain, but he does not know how to obtain it.

— Blaise Pascal 1669 (posthumous)
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No man can be a good citizen who is not a good son, a good brother, a good husband, or a good father.

— Edmund Burke c. 1770s-1790s
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Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, and love with awe the invisible King.

— John Milton 1667
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I love to play billiards.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1786
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