What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.