Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIdleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAbsence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld