He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
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 RochefoucauldIn misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld