Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
We like to divine others, but do not like to be divined ourselves.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
Why must we have enough memory to recall to the tiniest detail what has happened to us, and not have enough to remember how many times we have told it to the same person?
Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of them and despise them.
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful to them, to praise, which deceives them.
