“Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.”

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”

“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld”

“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”

“Taste may change, but inclination never.”

“Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.”

“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

“It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.”

“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”