It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHappiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPoliteness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld