Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"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."

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

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

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