A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld