Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
Francois de La RochefoucauldYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld