"Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.”

“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”

“Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.”

“Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.”

“Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.”

“No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.”

“By being seldom seen, I could not stirBut like a comet I was wondered at.”

“A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.”

“We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.”