~ Friedrich Nietzsche.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
~ George MacDonald.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
~ George Sand.
Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
~ George Santayana.
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their ownselves, their version of him.
~ Goethe.