“ The more things change the more they remain the same. ”
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
~ Alphonse Karr
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.