Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

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

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

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

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.