We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.Francois de La Rochefoucauld