“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.”
— Jean de La Bruyère, book Les Caractères
L'amour qui naît subitement est le plus long à guérir.
Aphorism 13
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
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