The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld