"The most clever and polite are content..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

“It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.”

“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”

“Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.”

“I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.”

“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities”

“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”

“Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.”

“There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.”