If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldEven the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld