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Chapter 112 Saying Love
[France] La Rochefoucauld
In love, it is often what we do not know that makes people happier than what we do know.

It is difficult to define love, and we can only say: "In the soul, love is a dominant passion; in the spirit, it is a mutual understanding; Behind all the mystery is a secret admiration and graceful possession of what we love."

If there is a pure love that does not mingle with our other passions, it is this love.

Love cannot be hidden for long, nor can it be faked for long.

When we judge love by its effects, it is more like hate than love.

There is only one kind of love, but its copies are thousands and thousands of different.Love, like a flame, cannot exist without constant motion, and the moment it ceases to hope and fear its life ceases.

The fidelity of love is really a fickleness, which attaches our minds successively to the qualities of our lover, giving preference to one at once, and then to another.This constancy is thus nothing but a stop-and-go change within the same subject.

The constancy of love is of two kinds: one arises from the fact that we continually discover new and lovely traits in our beloved, and the other arises from our desire to acquire a reputation for constancy.

In love, it is often what we do not know that makes people happier than what we do know.

The same fortitude with which it resists love is used to make it violent and long-lasting, and those who are weak are always under the influence of passion, and seldom actually acted upon it.

Lovers see each other's flaws only at the end of their ecstasies.

Wisdom and love do not go hand in hand, and as love increases, wisdom decreases.

When we love too much, it is not easy to find out if someone has stopped loving us.

Since we are not free in loving or ceasing to love, lovers have no right to complain to each other of frivolity and change of heart.

When we are weary of love, it is easy for us to put up with infidelity from others so that we are relieved of our obligation to be loyal.

It is easier to get love when we don't have it than to get rid of love when we have it.

Giving little love in love is a sure means of being loved.

Heart mark notes
When his eyes pass through the thick barrier of your heart and reach the most beautiful, hottest and deepest place in your heart, and your eyes pass through his eyes and fall straight to the bottom of the deep lake, you see that he is just like you. emotion.The heartbeat of each other, everything starts again - this is love.

There is only one kind of love, but its copies are thousands and thousands of different.Everyone's interpretation and interpretation of love is different, but loyalty to the soul and freedom is a must.Just as happiness cannot be duplicated, what each person's love itself manifests is an attitude towards life and a vision of the world.Of course, it is more about the quality of will and inner morality that we show when we go through wind and rain on the road of love.After all, love is essentially a promise and a vow between two hearts.

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