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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. 

—Abraham Lincoln

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476