Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.