You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.