В жизни нередки случаи, когда женщина изо всех сил скрывает страсть, которую испытывает к мужчине, в то время как он так же прилежно разыгрывает любо… - Jean de La Bruyère

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain and he forgets to live.

What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to corruption like the vilest creatures ? And does it not prove much more strength of mind and grandeur to be able to conceive the idea of a Being superior to all other beings, by whom and for whom all things were made; of a Being absolutely perfect and pure, without beginning or end, of whom our soul is the image, and of whom, if I may say so, it is a part, because it is spiritual and immortal?

Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.