Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
Original: Chi è innamorato si riconosce subito: non si sente mai all'altezza della persona amata.
Source: prevale.net
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
“Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.”
Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Let those love now who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.”
Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet.
Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris, written in the time of Julius Caesar, and by some ascribed to Catullus: Cras amet qui numquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet.
Paul Tournier (1898–1986) Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor
Source: To Understand Each Other
“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.”
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Le commencement et le déclin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras où l'on est de se trouver seuls.
Aphorism 33
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
S.L.A. Marshall (1900–1977) United States Army general and Military historian
The Aggressive Will. p. 167.
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command (1947)
“The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.”
Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian
Love Alone Is Credible (1963)
“Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist