When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld