Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La RochefoucauldCustomary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIdleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld