Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNever give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld