This is just a stopping-off point for me but I'll be stopping long enough to make it worth my while finding what people call 'someone to love'.
Original text (Spanish)
Original text (Spanish)
Everything persists and continues on its own, even if you yourself decide to withdraw.
Every illness is caused by something which is not an illness.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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