Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

  • We pardon to the extent that we love.

  • Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

  • Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

  • Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.