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Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

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One loves wholly but once — the first time: loves that follow are less involuntary.

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The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.

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Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

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Venus was the daughter of the waves. She gave birth to Love: we can expect nothing but tempest from a daughter of the sea.

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We love well only once, the first time. The loves which follow are less involuntary.

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The beginning and the decline of love manifest themselves in the embarrassment that one feels in the tete-a-tete.

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A man who lives in indifference is one who has never seen the woman he could love.

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Women go further in love than most men, but men go further in friendship than women.

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There is not a love, however violent it may be, to which ambition and interest do not add something.

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Jean de La Bruyère

Jean de La Bruyère
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Born: August 16, 1645
Died: May 11, 1696 (aged 50)
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