On Love, Family, and Children
One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
—Sophocles, *406 BC
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of another.
—Gottfried Leibniz, 1677
Fathers and teachers, I ponder, ‘What is hell?’ I maintain that this is the suffering of being
unable to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
If you have not loved,
You have neither lived nor breathed.
—Vladimir Vysotsky, 1975
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Love conquers all.
—Virgil, 37 BC
Love rules without law.
—Italian proverb
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Oh, what a heaven is love! Oh, what a hell!
—Thomas Dekker, 1604
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
—Pierre Corneille, 1631
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This is a fair but prosaic translation of a verse from a famous Russian song.
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One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
—Sophocles, *406 BC
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of another.
—Gottfried Leibniz, 1677
Fathers and teachers, I ponder, ‘What is hell?’ I maintain that this is the suffering of being
unable to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
If you have not loved,
You have neither lived nor breathed.
—Vladimir Vysotsky, 1975
1
Love conquers all.
—Virgil, 37 BC
Love rules without law.
—Italian proverb
***
Oh, what a heaven is love! Oh, what a hell!
—Thomas Dekker, 1604
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
—Pierre Corneille, 1631
1
This is a fair but prosaic translation of a verse from a famous Russian song.
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
K. K. Likharev (ed.), Essential Quotes for Scientists and Engineers,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63332-5_14
121