Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld