Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld