Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldVery few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld