"In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust...." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.”

“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.”

“Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.”

“The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

“It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.”

“A good front is half the battle in love or war.”

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.”

“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”