"We should scarcely desire things ardently if..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.”

“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”

“Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.”

“Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.”

“As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.”

“This liberty is all that I request.”

“A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.”

“We cannot wish for that we know not.”

“Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.”