When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Read Quote
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Read Quote
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Read Quote
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Read Quote
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Read Quote
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Read Quote
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Read Quote
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Read Quote
