There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.
Francois de La RochefoucauldReconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThose whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld