One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOur repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFlattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld