The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNever give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld