We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. - Jean de La Bruyère

Il faut rire avant que d'être heureux, de peur de mourir sans avoir ri.

A fool is always troublesome, a man of sense perceives when he pleases or is tiresome ; he goes away the very minute before it might have been thought he stayed too long.

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.