"Truth does not do as much good..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.”

“Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.”

“In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.”

“The theory must not contradict empirical facts.”

“There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.”

“Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.”

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”

“Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.”

“Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.”