“We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.François VI de la Rochefoucault
“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.François VI de la Rochefoucault
“The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.François VI de la Rochefoucault
“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.François VI de la Rochefoucault
“If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.François VI de la Rochefoucault