Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.