Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La RochefoucauldDecency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld