"There is such a thing as a..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Only great men have great faults.”

“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”

“Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.”

“Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'”

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”

“It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.”

“There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.”

“I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.”

“It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.”