"Innocence does not find near so much..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.”

“Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.”

“Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.”

“The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.”

“Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.”

“As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.”

“One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.”

“For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.”

“How could passion run so deepHad I never thoughtThat the crime of being bornBlackens all our lot?”