For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAll the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld