Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.