Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Francois de La RochefoucauldVery few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSelf-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld