"We speak little if not egged on..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We forgive just so long as we love.”

“Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.”

“To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.”

“We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.”

“As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.”

“...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.”

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

“True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.”

“There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.”