Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Love
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
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The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]
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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.
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Sudden love is latest cured.
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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.
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Love and friendship exclude each other.
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