Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld