The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
doubt
The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.
majority men
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.
Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
faults
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
rest
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
life wisdom action
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
action
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
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