"We do not despise all those who..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”

“The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.”

“Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.”

“Man is bound to lie about himself”

“Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.”

“People don't usually compliment your character.”

“Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.”

“What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.”

“We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?”