We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

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• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

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  We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have

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  It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all th

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  When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness

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  When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

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  It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really

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  We pardon to the extent that we love.

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