Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld