"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other."

"There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life."

"Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live."

"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."

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

"One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched."

"They that have lived a single day have lived an age."

"Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die."

"If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension."