It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld