The Art of Chivalry and Courtly Love

1. The pretext of marriage is no proper excuse against love.
2. No one who is jealous can love.
3. No one can have two lovers at once.
4. Love is always growing or diminishing.
5. There is no savor in anything obtained by the lover against the beloved's will.
6. It is not customary for a man to love before puberty.
7. The lover should remain unmarried for two years after the death of the beloved.
8. No one should be deprived of his love without good reason.
9. No one can love unless driven on by the prospect of love.
10. Love is always banished from the home of avarice.
11. It is not right to love a woman whom one would be ashamed to take as wife.
12. The true lover desires no embraces from any other than the beloved.
13. A love divulged rarely lasts.
14. An easy conquest makes love worthless, a difficult one gives it value.
15. Every lover grows pale at the sight of the beloved.
16. The sudden sight of the beloved makes the lover's heart quake.
17. A new love drives out the old.
18. Honestly alone makes a person worthy of love.
19. If love grows less, its decline is swift, and it seldom recovers.
20. A man in love is always fearful.
21. Pure jealousy always increases love's ardor.
22. A suspicion concerning the beloved increases jealousy and love's ardor.
23. A man peturbed by thoughts of love eats and sleeps less.
24. He who is fired by too much lust is not likely to love.
25. The true lover esteems nothing good except what he thinks will please the beloved.
26. A slight presumption forces the lover to suspect the worst of the beloved.
27. Love can deny nothing to love.
28. The lover cannot be sated with the solace of the beloved.
29. The true lover is at all times continually absorbed in imagining the beloved.
30. Nothing prevents a woman from being loved by two men or a man by two women.
31. The beloved's every act ends in thoughts of the lover.