We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMinds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld