"There are few people who would not..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”

“Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.”

“If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.”

“One loving heart sets another on fire.”

“I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.”

“All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.”

“Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”

“Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.”

“Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.”