The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSome accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld