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."

Happiness, then, is something final and self-sufficient, and is the end of action.

Aristotle · The conclusion of his argument in the Nicomachean Ethics that happiness is the one thing we want for its own sake. The popular line "Happiness depends upon ourselves" is a paraphrase of the same book, not his words.

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle · The opening sentence of the Metaphysics, in W. D. Ross's standard English translation.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle · Opening of his treatment of friendship; standard English translation from the Greek.

You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.

Rhett Butler · Clark Gable's blockade runner in Gone with the Wind (1939) · Rhett to Scarlett in the Paris bonnet scene, a line written for the film by Sidney Howard and not found in the novel.

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.

Albert Einstein · From a 1940 draft letter to his friend the physicist Philipp Frank; the shared "Love is a better teacher than duty" is a shortening, and the bracketed gloss is the editor's.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

“Happiness, then, is something final and self-sufficient, and is the end of action.”

“All men by nature desire to know.”

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

“You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.”

“I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

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