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Louis XIV’s Views on Love — Between Passion and Power in Versailles
Did the sun shine even at night? Louis XIV of France—known as the Sun King—shone brilliantly in the sky of 17th-century Europe. Crowned at the age of just fo... -
Benjamin Franklin’s View on Love ―Between Lightning and Affection ―
Benjamin Franklin.Born in 1706 in Boston to a candlemaker’s bustling household, he was the fifteenth of seventeen children. He helped draft the Declaration o... -
Socrates’ View on Love ― The Art of Stealing Hearts Without Touching ―
In a corner of ancient Athens, there walked a strange man. A philosopher who preached the wisdom of knowing one’s own ignorance, who led others toward truth ... -
Murasaki Shikibu’s Philosophy of Love — Where Love Dwelt at the Tip of Her Brush
Around the turn of the 11th century, in the middle of the Heian period, poetry and love were woven into the fabric of daily life, like light and shadow danci...
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