When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and... →
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.