If A Man Withdraws His Mind From The Love Of

“My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”

“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.”

“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

“One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.”