However rare true love may be, it is less so than true frien... - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."

"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."

"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."