One cannot live without amorous desires; Take love from life, you take away the pleasures.
 Molière, The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670). copy citation

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Author Molière
Source The Bourgeois Gentleman
Topic pleasure love
Date 1670
Language English
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Note Translated by Philip Dwight Jones
Weblink https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Middle-Class_Gentleman

Context

“It is said that we gladly languish, gladly sigh; But, despite what can be said, There is nothing so sweet as our liberty! FIRST MAN: There is nothing so sweet as the loving fires That make two hearts beat as one. One cannot live without amorous desires; Take love from life, you take away the pleasures. SECOND MAN: It would be sweet to submit to love's rule, If one could find faithful love, But, alas! oh cruel rule! No faithful shepherdess is to be seen, And that inconstant sex, much too unworthy, Must renounce love eternally.” source