La Rochefoucauld

Before desiring something passionately one should inquire into the happiness of the man who possesses it. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. - La Rochefoucauld

True courage is to do without witnesses everything that one is capable of doing before all the world. - La Rochefoucauld

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. - La Rochefoucauld

The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse. - La Rochefoucauld