We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld