Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. ”

We pardon to the extent that we love. ”

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? ”

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years. ”

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. ”

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. ”

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. ”

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of. ”

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ”

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. ”