Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

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Love is a beautiful flower, but one must have the courage to go and pick it at the edge of a precipice.

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To go through life without love is like going to battle without music, like embarking on a journey without a book, like sailing the sea without a guiding star.

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Having a firm character is to have a long and solid experience of life's disappointments and misfortunes.

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The art of love comes down to saying exactly what the level of intoxication of the moment requires.

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Love is like a fever: it arises and extinguishes without the will playing the smallest part in it.

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The jealous lover bears the illness of their beloved better than their freedom.

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Jealousy can constitute a new way of proving love, but it can also offend the dignity of a perfectly delicate woman.

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Excessively beautiful women are less surprising on the second day.

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I honor with the name of virtue the habit of carrying out painful and useful actions for others.