We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOur desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]
Francois de La RochefoucauldLove, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
Francois de La RochefoucauldGratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld