Maximes

Words from a time when 'maxim' was more than a men's magazine. These are from Le Duc de La Rochefoucauld's Les Maximes.

"The intellect is always fooled by the heart."

"We have all enough strength to bear other people's troubles."

"Hypocrisy is the homage paid by virtue to vice." (Oddly, Samuel Butler -- exactly contemporary with Rochefoucauld, has an almost identical statement. Hmmm.)

"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no larger ones."

"If one judges love by the majority of its effect, it is more like hatred than friendship."