The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld