There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOur good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld