I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MoliereRead
How easy love makes fools of us.
Interpretation
Love can lead us to make irrational decisions or act foolishly.
This quote by Moliere highlights the irrationality that often accompanies love, suggesting that love can cloud judgment and lead individuals to behave in ways that they wouldn't otherwise consider. It points to the transformative power of love, which can inspire both joy and folly, illustrating the complexities and paradoxes inherent in romantic relationships.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the irrational things people do when they fall in love.
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope
Long is the road from conception to completion.
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.
I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.
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