Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

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.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good read more

We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle