That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld