“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
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“Loves those who cry with their hearts, those who fight with honor and those who love for love.”
Original: (it) Ama chi piange con il cuore, chi lotta con onore e chi ama per amore.
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“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.”
The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=BKwxAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Those+who+have+courage+to+love+should+have+courage+to+suffer%22&pg=PA77#v=onepage
“It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.”
Source: War and Peace
“Let those love now who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.”
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.
Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
“Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.”
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 110.