The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAll the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThough nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld