For many centuries, the greatest minds have tried to derive a formula for love; its mystery has occupied dozens of philosophers and writers, a countless number of poetic lines are devoted to love, they spoke about love in admiring tones and sarcastically, recognizing its power over every person and seeing in it only a harmful illusion. Platonic and “Freudian” love, love through the eyes of Ovid and Seneca, Voltaire and La Rochefoucauld... - the elegant and compact volume that you are holding in your hands contains the most striking and witty aphorisms of great people about love.