Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMoral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.
Francois de La RochefoucauldLove can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld