La Rochefoucauld

If we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.

Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Hope deceitful as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we suppose ourselves to be.

The head is always the dupe of the heart.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.