It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSpiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSome men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld