The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.
Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason
The noble style immobilizes its subjects.
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.