You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune...

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune...

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition...

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition...

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us...

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us...

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes...

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes...

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure...

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure...

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting....

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting....

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free...

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free...

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity...

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity...