Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld