In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSome men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld