“Because friendship is intercommunication of love, therefore where love is not mutual, there can be no friendship.”

— 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)

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French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church j 1567–1622

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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=&quot;Friendship+may+and+often+does+grow+into+love+but+love+never+subsides+into+friendship&quot;&pg=PA179#v=onepage (1834).