Je ne sais point de plus grande finesse pour parvenir à aimer que d'aimer, comme on apprend à étudier en étudiant, à parler en parlant, à travailler en travaillant.
Francis de Sales, quoted in Vie de saint François de Sales, évèque et prince de Genève by André Jean Marie Hamon (Librairie Victor Lecoffre, Paris, 1896), Vol. II, Book VII, Ch. V: Son amour pour Dieu
Variant of sourced quotation: Comme on apprend à étudier en étudiant, à jouer du luth en jouant, à nager en nageant; aussi apprend-on à aimer Dieu et le prochain en l'aimant. — Francis de Sales, quoted in Jean-Pierre Camus, "L'esprit du bienheureux saint François de Sales" (1641), Part I, Section 31; published in Oeuvres complètes de saint François de Sales, ed. Jean-Irénée Depéry (Berche et Tralin, Paris, 1875), Vol. I
Misattributed
“The same Love works in all.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
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Scottish academic 1600–1676Related quotes
“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”
Georgic III, lines 380.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”
Amor omnibus idem.
Book III, lines 242–244 (tr. John Dryden).
Georgics (29 BC)
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
“I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.”
About her documentary I Am Because We Are http://www.youtube.com/user/iambecauseweare
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 246.