Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIf you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld