A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld