The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAs great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld