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Passion Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
- The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire
- The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from the passion we arouse.
- Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire
- If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength
- The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire
- In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.
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