We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPassion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
Francois de La RochefoucauldHowever much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldConstancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld