Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.....

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.