The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
Francois de La RochefoucauldChance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSome beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOld age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld