A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld