It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld