We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHeat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld