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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many t...more

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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love o...more

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the child of the novels. The you...more

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Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes its...more