Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld