Quotes

“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.” Lord Byron

“I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.” Lord Byron

“The busy have no time for tears.” Lord Byron

“The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.” Lord Byron

“For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.” Lord Byron

“Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.” Lord Byron

“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.” Lord Byron

“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.” Lord Byron

“In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.” Lord Byron

“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.” Lord Byron

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“One forgives to the degree that one loves.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld