The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld