“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.”
De toutes les passions violentes, celle qui sied le moins mal aux femmes, c'est l'amour.
Maxim 466.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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