Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld