Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

Guilt cannot change you

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

The Empire must fall.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.

The tides are in our veins.

There's a snake lurking in the grass.

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

Do you see those colors? Take them!