Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld