"It is not always from valor or..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.”

“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”

“We speak little if not egged on by vanity.”

“When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.”

“The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.”

“Humility is the secret of the wise.”

“The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.”

“The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.”

“The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life”