The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
Francois de La RochefoucauldConstancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld