Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois de La RochefoucauldToo great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld