A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld