When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFew are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSilence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThough nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld