However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Great men should not have great faults.
Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.