Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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