Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPhilosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld