Many persons would never have been in love had they never heard talk of it.
Agreeable and pleasant as love is, it pleases more by the manners in which it shows itself than by itself alone.
We pass on from love to ambition; we seldom return from ambition to love.
Those who have had a great love affair find themselves all their life happy and unhappy at being cured of it.
In love the one who is first cured is best cured.
The reason why lovers are never weary of talking of each other is that they are always talking of themselves.
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which makes our heart attach itself in succession to all the qualities of our beloved, and prefer, now this trait and now that; so that this constancy is only a kind of inconstancy fixed and enclosed in a single object.
If there is a love pure and exempt from all mixture with our other passions, it is that which is hidden in the depth of our heart and unknown to ourselves.
The pleasure of love consists in loving, and our own passion gives us more happiness than the feelings which our beloved has for us.
The grace of novelty is to love like the fine bloom on fruit; it gives it a lustre which is easily effaced and never recovered.