The Washington times., 1894-04-16
The PHYSIOLOGY OF LOVE
Nuggets from Or. Paoll Montegazza's Arh-
Gle in the Popular Science Monthly.

Nuggets from Or. Paoll Ncntegazza Art-
Gle in the Popular Science Monthly.
He who has loved and has been loved, even
for day. has no right TO curse hle
Beyond the second edition marriages belong
TO the history OF mummies and fossils.
Never marry the daughter of your sweet
heart. especially if the latter is yet alive.
Modern civilization is preparing for woman
the sweet possibility OF living single and
happy.
Man. fear above all things the oquette;
she will sin a hundred times more than the
wanton.
To preserve the love OF 4 man or woman
It is necessary, after have won 1t, to WIN 1t
again every day.
The wldower generally makes an excellent
husband. and hence women easily pardon
him dozen extra years.
To saw that in life we can love but once is
to utter one of the greatest effronteries OF
which love is daily guilty.
Before marriage it is well to make long
meditations before the mirror; very long ones
before the money Golfers.
There are tears that mean .'wait." There
are others that signify ''enough." We must
know how TO distinguish them.
Jealousy is the most bestial, the most fool
ish. the most ridiculous. the most cruel, the
most imbecile OF human passions.
The beautiful woman is usually jealous OF
the witty woman. while illustrious women are
often jealous of their chambermaids.
The idea of being bought and sold should
be for woman a hundred times more humili-
ating than that of not finding husband.
Oh. woman. before giving the name of hus-
band TO the man you should nave seen him
once at least after dinner and once angry.
-, Of
the past, and you only owe them the present
and the future. Be, then, sincere, but
prudent.
To say to him who loves ''be just is to
utter the most ridiculous and inseGsible joke
in the world. since one OF the most essential
characteristics OF love is injustice.
To love for an hour is natural 70 every an
imal; to love for day is natural TO every
man; to love for a lifetime belongs TO the
angels: to love Tor lifetime and one creature
only is Of the gods.
1t is our own fault if we are not loved.
This dogma is eternal the world, ancient
as man. immutable as the laws which govern
the physics OF the universe.
Waiting cures caprices and strengthens true
love. Waiting kills false loves and makes the
true ones great and noble. To wait means to
be sincere, prudent, good, holy.
The woman we love is always an angel:
she Is mother, sister, daughter, Wite. Inc
woman We do not love is only female even
were she as beautiful rs the Fornarina as
plastic as the Venus of Milo.
No matter how science advances love will
always remain an art: no matter what heights
genius attains, love will always have stronger
wings than genius: no matter what happiness
riches and glory can confer upon the man.
the supreme joys Of life will always be given
by love.
Never believe in woman who wants to
know your entire past. swearing to love you
in any case. To be sincere and frank does
not mean TO serve at the table of friend the
mud of ones own shoes. Who has not a little
mire on some sole or undersole OF his own
moral world?
Woman, from the first day she loves. is less
given to lying than we. Man. in his first
declarations. even when he is not quite sure
that he loves. swears instantly. swears an
eternity of infinite affection; while woman,
more modest, more reserved. replies that she
Goes not love vet. that she has not yet con-
suited her heart, that perhaps she will love.
The wretched proverb is daily repeated
that science and glory must guard themselves
against love rs dread enemy. and great men
are pedantically quoted who love but art and
who to chastity alone were indebted for their
greatness. Strange confusion OF ideas. in
which hygiene is confounded with morality.
chastity with impotence Of lovingi For one
genius killed by love you have a hundred who
to it owe their greatest inspirations.