Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
That which men call virtue is usually no more than a phantom formed by our passions, to which one gives an honest name in order to do with impunity whatever one wishes.