We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.