“ Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
