Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHumility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.
Francois de La RochefoucauldModeration is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld