People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThat which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
Francois de La RochefoucauldJealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld