Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.
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 RochefoucauldThe fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld