We forgive so long as we love.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it