We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. Out of difficulties grow miracles. The sweetest of a… - Jean de La Bruyère

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Tout l'esprit qui est au monde est inutile à celui qui n'en a point : il n'a nulles vues, et il est incapable de profiter de celles d'autrui.

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.