"If there be a love pure and..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.”

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

“If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.”

“Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.”

“As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.”

“Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?”

“The stream is always purer at its source.[Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]”