The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIdleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld