Le temps, qui fortifie les amitiés, affaiblit l'amour.
Aphorism 4
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
Le temps, qui fortifie les amitiés, affaiblit l'amour.
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
Speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944 "Debate on the Address" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/nov/29/debate-on-the-address#column_31.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Context: A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward … Let us have no fear of the future.
Source: Speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944 "Debate on the Address" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/nov/29/debate-on-the-address#column_31.
“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.”
Source: Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270) http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVirtutibus2.htm#4
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”
Vol. II; LXXXIII
Lacon
“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”
“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”
How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“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).
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.”
Reflections on Suicide (Réflexions sur le suicide, 1813), Section 1
