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 RochefoucauldNovelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld