As love increases, prudence diminishes.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.