"It is almost always a fault of..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.”

“In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.”

“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.”

“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.”

“Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.”

“I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.”

“The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.”

“It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.”

“The problem with using force in our lives is that we always create a counterforce. For example, If you're with a child and the child says, "I hate you," which is a very low energy, and you respond with, "I hate you too," you have lowered the collective energy that you are both in, and both of you will he weakened. Whereas, if you respond to, "I hate you," with love, which is what, instinctively, we know what to do, then we can dissolve and dissipate that hatred.”