Franois

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as wind blows out candles and fans fire.”

“If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.”

“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”

“There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.”

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not.”

“There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.”