If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.
As long as we love, we can forgive.
The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.
There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
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 being.
There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.
