Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.
Francois de La RochefoucauldReconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld