“Roland had sworn off children—they kept trying to kill him.”
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“Reason and love are sworn enemies.”
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) French tragedian
La raison et l'amour sont ennemis jurés.
La nourrice, La Veuve [The Widow], (1631), act II, scene III.
“There is no oath which seems to me so sacred as that sworn by the all-divine love I bear you.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
By this love, then, and by the God who reigns in Heaven, I swear to you that my soul is incapable of dishonor — that, with the exception of occasional follies and excesses which I bitterly lament, but to which I have been driven by intolerable sorrow, and which are hourly committed by others without attracting any notice whatever — I can call to mind no act of my life which would bring a blush to my cheek — or to yours. If I have erred at all, in this regard, it has been on the side of what the world would call a Quixotic sense of the honorable — of the chivalrous. <br class="br">" Letter to Mrs. Whitman http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/WORKS/letters/p4810181.htm" (1848-10-18).
“No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.”
Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The Second Part, Chapter 21, p. 112
Leviathan (1651)
“For your lovely eyes, Lady, bound me.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Ché i be' vostr'occhi, donna, mi legaro.
Canzone 3, line 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
Variant: [From] two lovely eyes that have bound me.
Poul Anderson book The Boat of a Million Years
Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 32 (p. 517)
“He errs that seeks to set a term to the frenzy of love; true love hath no bound.”
Errat, qui finem vesani quaerit amoris:
verus amor nullum novit habere modum
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, xv, 29; translation by H.E. Butler
Elegies
