The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld