Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.