Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
Francois de La RochefoucauldModeration cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld