Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPhilosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
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 Rochefoucauld