Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."

"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."

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