There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is little better than infidelity.
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.
Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
We always love those that admire us, but we do not always love those we admire.