François de La Rochefoucauld - Love Quotes

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Temperance is the love of health — or the inability to eat or drink much.

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If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

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The virtuous woman who falls in love is much to be pitied.

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In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love.

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It is difficult to define love. In the soul it is a passion to rule; in the mind it is sympathy; and in the body it is only a hidden and tactful desire to possess what we love after many mysteries.

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There is but one kind of love, but there are a thousand different copies of it.

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Sometimes it is pleasant for a husband to have a jealous wife: he always hears what he loves being talked about.

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The reason why so few women are touched by friendship is, that they find it dull when they have experienced love.

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A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

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There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

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The same force which serves to resist love also makes it strong and lasting; and weak people, who are always shaken by passions, are almost never fulfilled by them.

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In love, the first healed is the best healed.

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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

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In friendship and in love, one is often happier because of what one does not know than what one knows.

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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.

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Jealousy is always born together with love, but it does not always die when love dies.

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The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.

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It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

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Some have a species of instinct (the source of which they are ignorant of), and decide all questions that come before them by its aid, and always decide rightly. These follow their taste more than their intelligence, because they do not permit their temper and self-love to prevail over their natural discernment. All they do is in harmony, all is in the same spirit. This harmony makes them decide correctly on matters, and form a correct estimate of their value.

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

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Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.

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True love is like the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it but few have seen it.

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There are people who would never be in love had they not heard [others] speak of love.

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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or feign it where it does not.

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If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

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Though sincerity and confidence have many points of resemblance, they have yet many points of difference. Sincerity is an openness of heart, which shows us what we are, a love of truth, a dislike to deception, a wish to compensate our faults and to lessen them by the merit of confessing them.

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If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

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The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse.

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We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
Variant translation: One often passes from love to ambition but one rarely returns from ambition to love.

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