veritable-love

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. If we always had smiled on the one who is gone, there would be no despair in our grief; and some sweetness would cling to our tears, reminiscent of virtues and happiness. For our recollections of veritable love__hich indeed is the act of virtue containing all others__all from our eyes the same sweet, tender tears as those most beautiful hours wherein memory was born.