“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”

“Love doesn’t stop people from betraying each other”

“Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.”

“The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?”

“People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.”

“There are some times… when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”

“I feel awe of the gods, I love, I revere, I venerate them, and in short have precisely the same feelings towards them as one would have towards kind masters or teachers or fathers or guardians or any beings of that sort.”

“Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.”

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”