Relationships Sayings
22 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 22 authors
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Whoever enters into marriage, enters a cloister full of struggles.
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.
The more I see of people, the more I love my dog.
I do wish thou wert a dog, that I might love thee something.
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.
The world is a garden, love is its flower. And sometimes, you get weeds.
I do not love to dispute about religion. I had rather feel it.
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.
Must I be forced to make a husband of a man that I cannot affect?
I love the truth, but I do not always tell it.
The love of truth is the first step towards wisdom.
Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
To be feared is much safer than to be loved.
There is no nation in the world that is more in love with its own government than the English.
To be more loved than esteemed is a precarious tenure.
The highest form of love is to be the love of God.
Man is full of desires: he loves all that he can obtain, but he does not know how to obtain it.
No man can be a good citizen who is not a good son, a good brother, a good husband, or a good father.
Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, and love with awe the invisible King.
I love to play billiards.