“The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils, though no longer for the pleasures.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld
“Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld