The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
How easy love makes fools of us.
Reason is not what decides love.
We are easily duped by those we love.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.