"Reason alone is insufficient to make us..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.[Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]”

“We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.”

“The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.”

“All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.”

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.”

“I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.”

“Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.”

“The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.”

“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”