The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld