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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Talking, Reason

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

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Love, Friendship, True Friend

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

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Love, Passion, Blow

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

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Love, Jealousy, Self Love

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

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Love, Break Up, Breakup

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

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Love, Men, Persons

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

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Love, Friendship, Women

We pardon as long as we love.

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Love, Forgiveness, Long

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

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Love, Flirty, Flirting
"Maxims" by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, (No. 359), 1665-1678.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

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Love, Heart, Quality

Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

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Love, Pride, Two

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Names, Numbers

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Different, Copies

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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Love, Jealousy, Self

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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Love, Friendship, Patience

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Disappointment, Hate

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

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Love, Believe, Romantic Love
Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.187

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Love Is, Romance
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 259, 1678.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

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Love, Two, Merit

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Self, Anorexia
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 2, 1678.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

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Love, Tire, Self Love

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

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Love, Fall, People
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 136, 1678.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Deceit, Mistrust

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

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Love, Friendship, True Friend

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Ambition, Doe

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