We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThose whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld