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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer and composer (1712–1778)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer and composer (1712–1778)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer and composer (1712–1778)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

Jean Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Jean Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine
French poet, fabulist and writer (1621-1695)

Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Jean de la Bruyere
17th-century French writer and philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.
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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Jean de la Bruyere
17th-century French writer and philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.
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Love and friendship exclude each other.

Jean de la Bruyere
17th-century French writer and philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean de la Bruyere
17th-century French writer and philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.
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