One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
peace
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
faults
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
friendship
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
friendship happiness
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
doubt
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
ambition
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
ambition men
women
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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