It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."

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

"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."

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

"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."