The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse.
In the original French
Le plaisir de l'amour est d'aimer; et l'on est plus heureux par la passion que l'on a que par celle que l'on donne.
Reflections · 1678
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.