Love & Relationships Sayings

47 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 47 authors

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.

— John Locke 1706 (posthumous)
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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.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau Unknown
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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.

— Baruch Spinoza 1677
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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.

— Francis Bacon 1625
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Let every one of you take heart and go forward like a good soldier, nothing daunted by the smallness of your numbers.

— Francisco Pizarro c. 1530s
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The being who can govern her own house, and make her husband and children happy, is more respectable than a queen.

— Mary Wollstonecraft 1787
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The heart of man is a little world, where all the good and evil of the universe are to be found.

— Erasmus Unknown
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

— Blaise Pascal 1670 (posthumous)
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

— Edmund Burke 1790
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The more you beat me, the more I will love you.

— Peter the Great 1720
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The course of true love never did run smooth.

— William Shakespeare c. 1595-1596
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The greatest proof of love is to give all, and to lose all.

— Cervantes 1605
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Against the great superiority of another, there is no rescue but love.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1833 (posthumous)
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What more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty?

— John Milton 1671
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

— Jonathan Swift 1706
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I am a man of stone, and I have a heart of stone.

— Michelangelo c. 1500s
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Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

— Machiavelli 1532
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of another.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1670-1671
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A musician is a magician, who, by the power of his art, can turn a heart of stone into a heart of gold.

— Ludwig van Beethoven Unknown
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I love my wife, and she loves me, and that is all that matters.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1782
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