"All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression."
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"I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen."
"The whole truth... sings only - and all lovers are the song."
"The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom."
"Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice."
"There must be 50 ways to leave your lover."
"To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man."
"Most affairs do die a natural death. Today, you look at your partner's phone to find out the weather, and you find out about a lover. It has never been as easy to cheat as it is today, and it has never been harder to keep a secret."
"There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains."
"Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow."
"I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer."
"Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them ."
"Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers."
"There's a great expression that says, "God is a jealous lover," and it's a very accurate expression that has nothing to do with whatever you see god or nature as."
"When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover."
"We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men."
"A philosopher's a lover of wisdom."
"He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is."
"As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me."
"I was down in the sewer with some little lover."