We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
enlightenment · french-moralists
La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld · 1613–1680 · French
Duke and anatomist of self-love. The maxim as a small knife: vanity, virtue, and the motives we advertise.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
We confess our little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
The one who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others cannot live without him is even more mistaken.