A braggart shivering with fear;
Pages and lackeys, thieves of night;
And ’mid the tumult, noise, and stink of it,
There’s Paris—Pray, what do you think of it?
François de la Rochefoucauld, famous French moralist, is best known through the wit and wisdom of his Maxims.
A woman is faithful to her first lover a long time—unless she happens to take a second.
He who is pleased with nobody is much more unhappy than he with whom nobody is pleased.