We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected- in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

L'amour affronte la Mort ; lui seul, non pas la vertu, est plus fort qu'elle. Lui seul (pas la vertu) inspire de bonnes pensées.