A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.
Francois de La RochefoucauldLove, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld