A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSome people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSelf-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPhilosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld