The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Sudden love is latest cured.
We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.
A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
