“When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.”
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“The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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.
Maxim 259. Compare: "They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still", Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Act ii, Scene 5.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/richard_dawkins/2007/11/banishing_the_greeneyed_monste.html, November 2007.
Jamal Simmons (1971) American journalist
Simmons at the Canadian-American Business Council luncheon. 2008-11-13 http://eaves.ca/2008/11/14/quote-of-the-day
Giusto de' Conti (1390–1449) Italian poet
(Che) l’alma sciolta dal mondano errore
Tanto più sente, quanto è più felice;
E tant’ha più d’amor, quanto più intende.
La Bella Mano (Ed. Vinegia, 1531), p. 19.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 330.