There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHeat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La RochefoucauldJealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld