A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIdeas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAlmost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld