It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThey that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld