The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIf there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOur desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]
Francois de La Rochefoucauld