Love & Relationships Sayings
47 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 47 authors
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have said.
He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours, as much as he can, to repay his fellow's hatred, anger, contempt, etc., with love and nobleness.
For it is a sure rule, that a man were better to be a suitor to the devil, than to a man whose heart is not open.
Let every one of you take heart and go forward like a good soldier, nothing daunted by the smallness of your numbers.
The being who can govern her own house, and make her husband and children happy, is more respectable than a queen.
The heart of man is a little world, where all the good and evil of the universe are to be found.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
The more you beat me, the more I will love you.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
The greatest proof of love is to give all, and to lose all.
Against the great superiority of another, there is no rescue but love.
What more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty?
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
I am a man of stone, and I have a heart of stone.
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of another.
A musician is a magician, who, by the power of his art, can turn a heart of stone into a heart of gold.
I love my wife, and she loves me, and that is all that matters.