Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]
Francois de La RochefoucauldNothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld