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

—Tacitus, c. 100

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

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

—Welsh proverb

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972
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