We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSome accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld