We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
Francois de La RochefoucauldVirtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld