“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”
Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer
Vol. II; LXXXIII
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“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Quoted by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington in Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington http://books.google.com/books?id=w648AAAAYAAJ&q="Friendship+may+and+often+does+grow+into+love+but+love+never+subsides+into+friendship"&pg=PA179#v=onepage (1834).
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“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Dans l'amitié comme dans l'amour on est souvent plus heureux par les choses qu'on ignore que par celles que l'on sait.
Variant translation: In friendship as in love, we are often happier due to the things we are unaware of than the things we know.
Maxim 441.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Friendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm”
Amicitia semper prodest, amor aliquando etiam nocet
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXXV
Francis de Sales book Introduction to the Devout Life
http://books.google.com/books?id=d8kCAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Because+friendship+is+intercommunication+of+love+therefore+where+love+is+not+mutual+there+can+be+no+friendship%22&pg=PA145#v=onepage
Car l'amitié est un amour mutuel, & s'il n'est mutuel, ce n'est pas amitié.
http://books.google.com/books?id=orIOAAAAQAAJ&q=%22car+l'amiti%C3%A9+est+un+amour+mutuel+%26+s'il+n'est+mutuel+ce+n'est+pas+amiti%C3%A9%22&pg=PA242#v=onepage
Pt. 3, ch. 17
Introduction to the Devout Life (1609)
“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) Swiss author
Reflections on Suicide (Réflexions sur le suicide, 1813), Section 1
