The Devil In Love

But I now began to reflect (which at first I was incapable of doing) that in all cases where we stand in need of extraordinary succours to regulate our conduct, if our supplicating with earnestness does not entitle us to have them granted, it at least, by our retiring, puts us in a situation to reap all the benefit of our own prudence.

I will love you with my whole heart and without that sweetener you talk of.

I find human nature soars beyond those enjoyments, and the restless spirit of man will not permit him to enjoy the present happiness unless he has a prospect of a future one still greater.

I would teach you to love as I do and you will be, by that single sentiment, much above your fellows

pardon a heart that is absorbed in the softest, sweetest sensations and as yet has had no experience.

"All this appears as a dream to me," said I, "but what else is human life? I only dream more extraordinary than other people!

love, I adore you—persuaded that you are not that fantastic being that I once thought you and convinced that your passion for me is unabated by that repulsive conduct with which I have hitherto treated you.

If I die, I die for you, if I live, it will be to love you.

you are the most artful and adroit of evil spirits; you talk of love, and are the image of it; but you poison the idea.

You know your own affairs best—but you are young, void of reflection, eager in the extreme, and follow your pleasures too precipitately."