(5.) As long as love lasts, it feeds on itself, and sometimes by those very means which seem rather likely to extinguish it, such as caprice, severity, absence, jealousy. Friendship, on the contrary, needs every assistance, and dies from want of attention, confidence, and kindness.
(6.) It is not so difficult to meet with excessive love as with perfect friendship.
(7.) Love and friendship exclude each other.
(8.) A man who is passionately in love neglects friendship, and one whose whole feelings are for friendship has none to give to love.
(9.) Love begins with love; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.
(10.) Nothing is more like the most ardent friendship than those acquaintances which we cultivate for the sake of our love.
(11.) We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time we love. Subsequent inclinations are less instinctive.
(12.) Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.
(13.) Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.
(14.) A man who loves so ardently that he wishes he were able to love ever so many thousand times more than he does, yields in love to none but to a man who loves more intensely than he could wish.