In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld