It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld