Jean de La Bruyère: Love begins with love.

Love begins with love. — Jean de La Bruyère

Love begins with love.
Love and friendship exclude each other. — Jean de La Bruyère
Socrates … said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine — Thomas Mann
The more we love a mistress, the nearer we are to hating her. — François de La Rochefoucauld
It is better to poyson hir with the sweet bait of love. — John Lyly
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what sh — Robert Burns
Of several luminous bodies of equal size and brilliancy and at an equal distance — Leonardo da Vinci
Лермонтов умер 28 лет, а написал больше, чем оба мы с тобой вместе. Талант позна — Anton Chekhov
For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, But bubbles on the rapid stream of — Edward Young
Horæ Memento cita mors venit, aut victoria læta. In the hour's short space comes — Horace
I love men more or less, depending on the amount of annotations I can get out of — Jules Renard
Veritatem dies aperit. — Time discovers truth. Seneca the Younger
Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which t — Mark Twain