Love
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Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him
Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry
A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues
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