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What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
 A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, 
while the loss of his inheritance might read more 
 A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, 
while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
 [Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che 
la perdita del patrimonie.] 
 That puts it not unto the touch
 To win or lose it all.  
 That puts it not unto the touch
 To win or lose it all. 
 But over all things brooding slept
 The quiet sense of something lost.  
 But over all things brooding slept
 The quiet sense of something lost. 
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
 What's saved affords
 No indication of what's lost.  
 What's saved affords
 No indication of what's lost. 
The cheerful loser is the winner.
The cheerful loser is the winner.
Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of read more
Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.