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Jean de La Bruyère on Love

1645–1696 France

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Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Les Caractères (1688)

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Les Caractères (1688)

Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

Les Caractères (1688)

The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Les Caractères (1688)

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Les Caractères (1688)

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean de La Bruyère (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.