Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Often credited to Aristotle · A modern reworking: what Diogenes Laertius records is Aristotle's answer to the question "What is a friend?", namely "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Often credited to Aristotle · A modern reworking: what Diogenes Laertius records is Aristotle's answer to the question "What is a friend?", namely "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Ann Landers · The opening line of her "Love or Infatuation?" column, the piece readers asked her to rerun more than any other; it continues "It takes root and grows, one day at a time."
Attributed to Walter Winchell · Winchell printed a version in his 1933 column, but the saying was already in circulation by 1916 and nobody knows who coined it.
William Shakespeare · Polonius's parting advice to his son Laertes.
Marcel Proust · Standard English translation of a line from his first book.
Henry David Thoreau
Helen Keller · Her answer on the vaudeville circuit in the early 1920s when an audience member asked whether she wanted her sight more than anything else in the world.
Elbert Hubbard · The saying was already going round in 1905 as a schoolboy's definition; Hubbard printed his version in 1910 and it has carried his name since.
C. S. Lewis · The popular "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another..." is a tidied paraphrase of this sentence.
Aristotle · Opening of his treatment of friendship; standard English translation from the Greek.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · From his essay "Friendship"; the full sentence begins "The only reward of virtue is virtue".
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