No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSelf-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld