The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld