Selfishness is one of the qualities
apt to inspire love.
(Nathaniel Hawthorne: American Notebooks.)
Terence, «The anger…»
The anger of lovers renews their love.
(Terence: The Woman of Andros.)
Ovid, «Love…»
Love is a kind of warfare.
(Ovid: Ars Amatoria.)
Tasso, «Any time…»
Any time that is not spent on love is wasted.
(Tasso.)
Emerson, «Love…»
Love is the bright foreigner,
the foreign self.
(Emerson: Compensation.)
Chateaubriand, «The more serious…»
The more serious the face,
the more beautiful the smile.
(Chateaubriand: Memoires d’Outre-Tombe.)
La Rochefoucauld, «Good marriages…»
Good marriages do exist,
but not delectable ones.
(La Rochefoucauld: Maxims.)
Lichtenberg, «Love…»
Love is blind,
but marriage restores its sight.
(Lichtenberg: Aphorisms.)
Rudyard Kipling, «A woman’s guess…»
A woman’s guess is much more accurate
than a man’s certainty.
(Rudyard Kipling: Plain Tales from the Hills.)
Karl Kraus, «Women’s Rights»
Women’s Rights are men’s duties.
(Karl Kraus: Aphorisms and More Aphorisms.)