Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSelf-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldLoyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAll the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld