We should often blush for our very best actions if the world did but see all the motives upon which

We should often blush for our very best actions if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.