When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPerfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld