Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld