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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

God

Leviticus 19:18 · 1405 BC

★ 1.1

Sonnet · Poem

And ruined love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 1.1

Play

There is no greater glory than love Nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Felix Lope de Vega

1632

★ 1.1

Short story

What a silly thing Love is!...It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

Oscar Wilde

1888

★ 1.1

How vast a memory lovers have!

Ovid

★ 1.2

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Apostle Paul

1st Corinthians 13:13 · 55

★ 1.2

Love ceases to be a Pleasure, when it ceases to be a Secret.

Aphra Behn

1686

★ 1.2

Letter

Love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself.

Franz Kafka

1920

★ 1.2

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.

Heathcliff

Wuthering Heights (1939 fim) · 1939

★ 1.2

It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love.

Catullus

Carmina · 54 BC

★ 1.3

Letter

My heart was not in me but with you, and now, even more, if it is not with you it is nowhere.

Heloise

1132

★ 1.3

Play

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

1862

★ 1.3

Film · Epic (film) · Historical romance (film) · Epic · Historical romance

Scarlett! Look at me! I love you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind · 1939

★ 1.3

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus

John 15:13 · 90

★ 1.3

Play · Comedy (play)

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 1.3

Autobiography and memoir

In love, the only safety lies in flight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

1820

★ 1.3

Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales · 1400

★ 1.5

As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of one's self, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf · 1927

★ 1.8

Lecture

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

1952

★ 1.8

Interview

Relationships should be based on value and fact, on how you get on, on what things you enjoy together. I think romance has caused more unhappiness almost than anything.

Diana Athill

2017

★ 1.8

Personal journal

The right sort of love is recognized by the sort of joy, of general excitement, of exultant life which the presence of someone produces in us and which distinguishes them. You feel better when with them.

Paul Valery

★ 1.8

Or love me less, or love me more And play not with my liberty; Either take all, or all restore, Bind me at least, or set me free.

Sidney Godolphin

1643

★ 1.9

Love…that cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

John Wilmot

1679

★ 1.9

Play

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

1768

★ 1.9

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Graziella · 1849

★ 1.9

Personal journal

To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

Samuel Butler · 1902

★ 1.9

Oh, love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

W.B. Yeats

1910

★ 1.9

Song · Musical

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky, Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it if you try.

Ira Gershwin

1937

★ 1.9

Magazine

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

1959

★ 1.9

Novel · Children's literature

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

The Witches · 1983

★ 1.9

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

Interview · Academic journal

Love is not just a feeling; it's a practice, something you practice whether you feel like it or not.

Wendell Berry

1996

★ 1.9

Film · Christmas (film) · Romantic comedy (film) · Christmas · Romantic comedy

But you know the thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end.

Sam (Love Actually)

Love Actually · 2003

★ 1.9

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another.

Jesus

John 13:34 · 90

★ 1.9

There was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see.

Longus

200

★ 1.9

Tragedy (play)

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn.

William Shakespeare

1597

★ 1.9