Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNeither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld