We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld