The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSome people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld