Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. - Jean de La Bruyère

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 all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone

Regretter ce que l'on aime est un bien, en comparaison de vivre avec ce que l'on hait.

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.