François De La Rochefoucauld, Maxims Quotes
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.
If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.