True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one.[Il est du véritable amour comme de l’apparition des esprits: tout le monde en parle, mais peu de gens en ont vu.]
Source:The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld (ed. Random House, 1959), (tr. Kronenberger), Maxim 76, Page 47