To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb
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There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476