Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Francois de La RochefoucauldJealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld