Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld