Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhy can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld