The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
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 RochefoucauldTo praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld