If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more near... - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."

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

"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."

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."

"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."