Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
Everything that is exquisite hides itself.
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.