Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
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 RochefoucauldThe grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld