In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.
Francois de La RochefoucauldRepentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld