The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThat which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld