We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.
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 RochefoucauldIt is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld