"Most people know no other way of..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.”

“Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.”

“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.”

“But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!”

“We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.”

“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.”

“I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.”

“Politics is but a narrow field.”

“We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.”